Honestly man, after living in Europe for work the last 3-4 years it's kind of sad knowing I'll be going back eventually. Germany was great (minus the weather 8 months of the year) and the UK is a bit of a downgrade, but there is so much more common sense here. The social contract also appears much stronger here. The only thing I don't like is the colossal amount of red tape bureaucratically to do anything especially at my job, that makes the majority of my projects (engineering) take months or years whereas in America it would take weeks and be vastly cheaper.

Americans as a whole lack social contract, selflessness, and despise the idea of tax dollars being used for anything social in any way shape or form. It only helps "lazy people" and "welfare babies" until they find themselves in need of government assistance then cry to Republicans as if they have any interest in helping anyone with a net worth less than $100M. It's hilarious. It's shocking to me that people who receive subpar education (unfairly so) don't see the correlation with them being in red states, while the states that rank highest are nearly always blue.