yeah the hostility started recently with trump and his ilk - fighting for nationalism of a bygone era.

if you can afford it - the US has excellent healthcare, you can also get organic food and dare I say better housing, private infra. what the US could/should improve on is have public clinics ie for preventative and quick care. public hospitals in the long run have many problems.

in the U.K for example - I used private healthcare, could've I have to the NHS - yeah but it means waiting times.

the southern states in the US are also what bring the quality of life down.

Housing is the only one I can agree on. The place is so damn big that outside of places like New York, you can get 2/3 times the space for the same money, in a lot of places even more!

To be fair, the UK isn’t high on my list either and I’ve lived in Finland and Austria before and I know people from china and their experiences with infrastructure and healthcare.

I am mostly comparing these places to all first world countries, rather than just the anglosphere.

>yeah the hostility started recently with trump and his ilk - fighting for nationalism of a bygone era.

It definitely didn't start with Trump, it just became policy under him.

Trump would never have had a chance if Americans didn't already blame immigrants for the effects of neoliberalism rather than the billionaires who put it into practice, and if the rural white populace weren't already afraid losing the cultural power of their demographic majority and identity. People forget how much of a joke candidate he was until racists took him seriously.

>if you can afford it - the US has excellent healthcare

If you can afford it, anywhere has excellent healthcare.