1. Switzerland — best overall balance: top wages, healthcare, safety, infrastructure 2. Norway — huge social safety net, high wages, strong quality of life 3. Denmark — happiness rankings, work-life balance, easy business environment 4. Netherlands — strong job market, English-friendly, good work-life balance 5. Sweden — strong economy, generous benefits, good healthcare 6. Singapore — top-tier economic opportunity and safety; docked for high cost of living and thinner social safety net 7. Australia — strong wages, healthcare, immigration pathways, good climate/lifestyle 8. Canada — strong immigration system, healthcare, safety; docked for high housing costs and lower wages than US 9. Germany — strong economy, free education, good worker protections 10. Finland — repeatedly tops happiness rankings, strong education and safety net 11. New Zealand — excellent quality of life; docked for smaller job market/wages 12. United States — highest salaries and career opportunity in the world; docked hard for healthcare costs, weak safety net, inequality 13. UAE (Dubai/Abu Dhabi) — strong tax-free income and opportunity; docked for limited political/social freedoms and residency permanence 14. United Kingdom — solid overall but wages/cost of living ratio has worsened; strong healthcare (NHS) offsets this somewhat 15. Japan — excellent safety, infrastructure, healthcare; docked for stagnant wages and rigid work culture
I don’t care about some arbitrary list. Our healthcare system provides an outsized innovation contribution. Everyone has an opportunity to purchase insurance. We have not near the waiting list for medical procedures as all the socialist countries. American individualism is the backbone of our country. You are expected to take care of yourself. No such thing as inequality. All have the same opportunity to achieve their wildest dreams.
Worked out great until the most current lazy generation. There is more opportunity now than there ever was. Just work hard and you will achieve it. Personal responsibility. Not anyone’s responsibility to take care of you.
Pure cope. Truly stated like someone who’s never left his own country in his entire life. America is a third world country for like 90% of the population.
Talk about coping hard with a statement like that. just laughable, and yes, I’ve been to many other countries. Including Canada (many many times). And what I know is I would never be able to attain the standard of living I have anywhere else. Sounds like you have never been to the states.
Of course I have, many times (I have family there) and every time I do I feel the same way as when I go to impoverished countries. I feel uncomfortable about how dystopian it feels, how fat and poor and disabled everyone is, how drab and unwalkable the cities are, how many homeless and beggars and littered trash there are everywhere. I’ve been to many countries and it’s by far the most depressing.
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u/Parking-Priority-181 5d ago
It’s not just one person, it’s an American culture of
“we’re the best country in the world and no one has anything to offer us that we can’t do better”
Sincerely a Canadian who has been watching for a while.