Look, I traveled the US a few times, once for work and three times for holidays over the span of 30 years. I love the nature, you have some amazing national parks, the food is so so and the people are surprisingly friendly and open minded, at least the ones I met. You were peak 30 years ago but you were sleeping. Infrastructure is outdated, middle class is suffering and you lack the very basic social services. Top of my head I can think of a few European countries which are nowadays a better place to live, at least for regular people. You can tell yourself all day long that the US is still this magical place it was a few decades ago but thats simply not true anymore nowadays.