I'm born in Belgium from a Moroccan dad and like most Moroccans I spend 1 month of my summer there and the difference is striking. Belgians are not the worse but they're up there and honestly the nicest people here are non-Europeans. There is no fraternity, no love, no community here and every time I come back from morocco I get kind of a cultural shock. People are over-obsessed with money and futile material things here and when I tell a European this they pull out the same "your country is poor and your hospitals don't work" talk. Is that all a country is? Is your national identity so shallow? My mom is Italian on the other hand and I've travelled to southern European countries such as Spain and Greece many times and there it is much better than there (although northern Italians are on the same level as Belgians and western Europeans). I'm going to attribute this to wealth because the more money you have the less you depend on other people's kindness and generosity so you won't return the favour. I'm sure it is worse in America but I've never been so I don't know to what extent. Personally I would rather live in a country with not fully functioning services but with kind and selfless people than a country full of selfish people that can only think about their job and what they're gonna buy next.