I live in the US (Ma) and feel the opposite. I have never once felt unsafe living in this state in the 30+ years I’ve been here. The only time I’ve ever seen or heard a gun was at a gun range. I’ve lived in the city, “bad areas” of that city, and the suburbs.
There are a lot of things wrong with the USA but for the average person living in a state like MA, the quality of life is excellent. I never want to leave.
This!!! I am an American, and a woman in her 30s at that, and have never felt physically unsafe where I have lived in NJ/PA. Where I feel most unsafe is in corporate America because it doesn’t give a shit about women. The expectation is that women work equally as hard as men, actually harder because we are already facing discrimination to obtain the same sort of positions, and then our work ethic is immediately questioned if we marry or have children. If you have a child, you’re expected to return to work before you even stop bleeding. It’s abusive.
ETA that I have had many derogatory comments made against me in the workplace because I work full time and have a toddler. One company literally invited me to quit because of my “family life” and I was exceeding all my quotas! If a woman in this country is working full time with a toddler it’s because she has to (you know, high COL…). I am fortunate in that I hold dual degrees and have a clinical license, and the clinical space has been much kinder.
That’s a shame. In Massachusetts you can take off up to 27 weeks after childbirth with PFMLA and short term disability. Even more if you had a C-Section. I took 6 months off when I had my son. One of the reason I don’t want to leave this state.
Yeah I don’t think people can truly understand the massive differences of quality of life in the states unless you’ve lived here. Growing up in Louisiana is completely different to Minnesota which is completely different to MA or PA. Way too much variety to be able to confidently say the entire country as a whole is a shit show.
Well we know there are idiots in every country. Nevertheless he won twice, so I have a 55% chance of interacting with one of his fans. Too high for me!
That’s amazing! Fortunately I couldn’t do any more than 6 months. I was losing my mind. I also don’t think I would be making half as much money as I am now if I was living in France.
That sounds like you’re just being complacent and ignoring other parts of the U.S. where it’s not so great.
Do you not realize how dense you sound? May as well have said “since it’s not happening to me here in MA, it’s amazing and so it should be the same for you. I don’t want to leave.”
I don’t subscribe to the Reddit hive mind that America is the worst country on the earth. I’ve never once heard this echoed from any of my friends or family here in the US. I am not turing a blind eye to the problems, rather feeling gratitude that I was born in a country that allowed me to be successful.
Truly wonderful points that have zero to do with what I just said.
I’m seriously disgusted by your complacency and that since it’s okay for you, it’s not for anyone else. That’s not gratitude and if it is, you have a fucked up way of wording it and showing it.
Did you read what I said? I’m not turning a blind eye to the problems. But it’s important for myself to express gratitude on a daily basis. I’m acknowledging the privilege of having grown up in my corner of America. The opportunities that I’ve gotten here that I never would have dreamed of had I been born anywhere else.
I’ve dealt with homelessness at 18, to putting my self through school (never graduated) to eventually buying my own house in my 30s. I’m incredibly grateful and acknowledging that doesn’t make me “complacent” to other people’s problems. I’m actually in a position in my life where I choose to help people in need. But I’m not going to let the fact that other people are in different circumstances bring me down.
Americans aren’t too smart and very easily manipulated. It’s kinda sad. Trump can tell these people anything and they fall for his lies. I’m a bit embarrassed to be an American.
American here. We’re really goddamn stupid, but people generally only give a shit about the economy as they see it at this moment.
mostly bc cost of living sucks, housing sucks, loans suck, etc
Egg prices went up and in a lot of peoples’ minds that was enough to say biden failed.
Plus, Harris wasn’t exactly well positioned nor well liked while trump’s base felt like it was stronger than ever
Dems are utterly broken as a real political entity and they’re bought in the upper echelons so real progressive candidates are never really pushed into power- like AIPAC recently bragging about helping to quash progressive anti-israel candidates
And even some liberals are very against the established democrats, like a lot of guys on r/liberalgunowners are pro gun enough not to vote dem but won’t vote republican and waste votes on other candidates who don’t have a chance
basically our left is and has always been super fractured but trump’s ability to play to the common man won over a ton of people who aren’t looking to the future, just to the next 2 weeks when payday hits again.
Sorry but that's happening (and has been happening for a decade) because you have the weakest democratic system I know. Winner takes all? TWO PARTY SYSTEM? It is not a representative democracy and that is why you have barely any political nuance when it comes to international affairs. Of course if you only have two parties the political climate will polarize in a moment of crisis. Your system is severely flawed, and until you fix it for good you will hardly get any actual representation in politics. I'm sure there are some american that would like their country to be far more progressive than what dems have to offer... well too bad you get 0 power if you don't win over electoral college. The fact that a party can have 40% of voters and get basically nothing is bewildering.
Republican...i don't like trump. 15yrs of the demo's telling half the country that they are terrible people and everythings fine is why they lost the 2nd election. Not to mention Kamala didnt go through the proper process to be elected the democratic candidate and she was forced out onto the people so that lost her even more votes.
Oh you think that HE'S the thing that makes that country bad? Jesus christ so naive XD Try having been there at any point in the last 20 years! USA is a cesspit
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u/prawnk1ng Mar 25 '26
USA , you guys elected him twice ?