No offense but outside of money does the US have anything going for it?

artisinal an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Natural parks.

Tasty drinkable water from the tap in nearly the entire country. Being able to flush toilet paper. Free toilets almost everywhere.

Being a country for 250 years is also quite an achievement.

I’m European and have witnessed many wars on my continent in my lifetime. A childhood friend was shot down with a Russian surface to air missile.

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2muchtime an hour ago | parent [-]

The water is drinkable but in many places not what I would call tasty.

	▲	artisinal an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Water tastes pretty gross in coastal Spain. In countries like Albania I wouldn’t even drink it at all. On Greek islands it is safe but everyone buys water from the stores. Due to the age of many places in Europe there is also still a lot of copper pipe used for tap water. Not deadly but also not very healthy. In Amsterdam over 20 percent of homes have copper pipes.

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jandrewrogers an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The best geography of any country by a large margin and a non-ethnic culture that believes anything is possible and celebrates the ambition to try.

The money is largely a side effect of these two things.

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wqaatwt an hour ago | parent [-]

Europe probably has the “best geography” and the climate, though?

Coastal California is probably one of the nicest places on earth but generally US is quite harsh.

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derektank 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You can’t have the best geography if you share a land border with an expansionist power, as Europe does with Russia.

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dgellow 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

The US has pretty much all the possible biomes within its borders. Even active volcanoes

	▲	wqaatwt 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yes but most of the more densely inhabited parts (with some exceptions) are not very nice climatically due to extreme temperature ranges and weather events compared to Europe (well at lease until recently considering that climate change seems to be affecting Europe more than any other place).

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AngryData 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lots of good farmland, and it has lots of mineral resources that we often ignore rather than cut margins to mine safely.

The US's problems are entirely political. Geologically and climate wise it is a really great place. And it already has an educated populous and a significant amount of industrial hardware.

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fluidcruft an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Mississippi river. Few understand what an advantage that river is.

	▲	derektank 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And that’s in spite of the fact that we’ve in some ways crippled it with the Jones Act

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dgellow 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some of the most interesting cities in the world, NYC is so interesting and full of subcultures and energy.

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AnimalMuppet an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Freedom to say (almost) anything, publicly, including criticism of the elite and powerful.

Freedom to do, to create a business with far fewer roadblocks than in, say, Europe.

Freedom to go, to travel anywhere in a really large country, with no borders or restrictions.

Yeah, you can quote me all the caveats. They're there; I don't deny them. But: Freedom to say, freedom to do, and freedom to go. Those are really big deals.

	▲	pixdamix 29 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Freedom to say (almost) anything, publicly, including criticism of the elite and powerful. Most European nations strongly protect free speech, allowing open public critique and satire of politicians, the wealthy, and the powerful. > Freedom to do, to create a business with far fewer roadblocks than in, say, Europe. Several European countries actually lead global easy business rankings, some offering fully digital, single-day company registration, very little bureaucracy (not mine, sadly) > Freedom to go, to travel anywhere in a really large country, with no borders or restrictions. The schengen zone grants passport-free travel across 29 nations, spanning thousands of miles without a single border checkpoint.
	▲	dgellow 32 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Europe isn’t a single country. We have multiple countries where you can create a company in no time, with little capital. And have freedom of movement within the whole EU

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kQq9oHeAz6wLLS an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ask those returning home from world cup visits. They'll be in the best position to compare to their home country.

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mindwork 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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