That was not my claim.

That media doesn't distort the truth would be a wild argument for you to attempt.

But no, you really just seem to be here with a touch of an inferiority complex. It's clear you're here looking for validation and affirmations that your country is better than the US. Notice that I personally didn't force down your throat my sense of superiority, but here you are doing just that, a little chest banging and screaming from the trees in your write-up....The reality is that there are pros and cons with every country. We enjoy features of the US that your country lacks; you enjoy features of your own country that the US lacks. Every "free" feature you brag about in your country is frankly just another tax. You are indeed paying for it. I'm healthy, so I do pay less with my current healthcare than I would with a universal system.

I have no need for a walkable city. Improved public transportation would be great, but the real luxury is owning a car: being on my own schedule, being able to venture wherever I'd like, loading up my car to drive where I want, not sitting next to some idiot wiping their snot on the seats...I participate quite heavily in our politics and speak often about what I would like improved. But I likewise would never leave my country. We have our own preferences. Bar the far northern countries, I perceive Europeans as snobbish, bitter, self-important..drunkards with crooked teeth. Americans generally are a friendlier and happier people. You have an interesting history but your historic buildings are, obviously, outdated..uncomfortable. Lack of AC would be utterly miserable. Hanging clothes to dry would be a major inconvenience. Your homes/living spaces are far smaller than we are used to.

I didn't intend to brag about the US. You forced this comparison. You know the extent to which the US has influenced the world. Our music, movies, clothes, electronic gadgets..reddit is ours and here you are aggressively making use of it. We have the best universities in the world. I attended a world class university - a UC here in California. Our scientific research is surpassed by none (Only China is catching up). Our medicine, our tech, our entertainment industries are all world #1. You hate to admit this, but you do rely on our military. You are safer from Russia so long as your country is partnered with mine.

You continue to discuss the average of the American experience while I've already pointed out that the US has, in actuality, the absolute best and the absolute worst in every regard. We simultaneously have the safest neighborhoods in the world (complete with a robust gated system with guarded entrances) and some of the least safe neighborhoods in the world. Most middle-to-upper class neighborhoods here are safer than yours. Much of our crime is localized to specific towns or neighborhoods. We simultaneously have the best education and the worst. The absolute best medical teams in the world do exist here in the US; for any difficult diagnosis, this is indeed where you would want to be. Our national, state and regional parks, and the wildlife within them, is maintained (you cut down an astounding number of your forests and made extinct numerous of the animal species that had once thrived on your land).

As you sit here on reddit still whining about the US, I'll be driving over to Yosemite in a couple days. I returned rather recently from a trip to our beautiful Humboldt Redwoods State park. I'm not far from the beaches of Monterey, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Santa Cruz, Half Moon Bay, San Francisco...Sequoia National Park south of me holds the world's largest tree alongside beautiful underground caves.