I feel like actual material wealth matters much more than relative wealth or inequality for this metric.

Eh. Most costs that matter scale to relative wealth, and the cost scales accordingly, and we have more homeless people than any rich country on earth, and we have no community worth a damn—we have snap, medicaid, and section 8, and our kind neighbors are rabid to end them all. This is, in most ways, the worst country on earth to be poor in. If i were poor in cincinnati suburbs I'd kill myself too.

Perhaps there's another place where poverty is a greater curse, though. But I would rather be poor in Burundi or Haiti than Ohio—at least I can sleep outside without dying and my neighbor won't fucking shoot me for existing. But this is what i get for living in the us, the place with the most evil people to have ever lived.