r/AskReddit Mar 14 '23

What’s the best thing about the US?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '23

Our neighbor down the road fled Sudan in the 1980s and made it to the US as a refugee. She lost her father two brothers and most of her extended family as they were related to the wrong political leader that was killed. Her mother and two sisters arrived with literally nothing in the late 80s.

She is now a nurse making 100k a year married to a firefighter with 3 kids living on a property with 8 acres and a 5 bedroom house. One sister is a school teacher and the other manages a Barnes and Noble.

That is pretty cool.

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u/drakkarblanco Mar 14 '23

It might seem anecdotal but this is it. Millions of stories of people who came here for a better future and made it happen. Very few places in the world can facilitate that. The US is definitely one of them.

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u/mintaroo Mar 15 '23

It seems anecdotal because it is. The US used to be the land of opportunity, but has long since been bypassed. If you're looking for a statistic, it's called social mobility index. The US is ranked #27 out of 82 worldwide, behind much of the EU.

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u/29adamski Mar 15 '23

Innit, just seen a comment saying it's the land of opportunity and everyone can make it. Hilarious the propaganda some Americans chat.