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>>18531592
>Are you stuck in the 90s?
What countries are (clearly) better than the US nowadays?
All major Western and most European ones have declined or in the best case somewhat stagnated, exchanging some problems for others or staying wealthy. It's not as if there was a great competition for the US.
You have so many opportunities, so much wealth, so many liberties, so much freedom, so much space for the average John Doe always or easily available - even after fucking up massively multiple times. In other parts of the world, especially the second and third world you don't have many chances easily, maybe one or two in a lifetime, maybe none at all.
If you are annoyed by your government, politics etc. you can simply fuck off into any biome you like: deserts, vast forests, tropical islands like Hawaii, raw Nature in Alaska etc.
I have been to the US two times five years ago for about a month each time and a lot isn't perfect or going well but overall it doesn't get much better sadly.