A couple months back I did a video about 10 reasons the United States is better than Europe.
Americans loved it, Europeans not so much. The comments section had the word bias show up quite
often I mean we get that word all the time this one was just a little ridiculous and over the
top I had to respond with don't be a crybaby fritz or Johan more times than I'd like to admit biased
is like the internet's new poorly thought out generic term if you see something you don't like
you just leave a comment about it being biased I still don't get that one everyone on the planet
is biased including the person that leaves that comment unless I just read stats and say nothing
else it is going to have some level of bias it would be the same thing if anyone else made a
video did a podcast wrote A Blog diary Captain's Log whatever today we have 10 biased reasons why
you should never move to the United States this is sort of directed at developed countries that
aren't like a civil war or living under a dictator if you're living in a bombed out Warehouse in
Syria right now you're probably going to be fine with all the entries on this list number
10 is stress level and I'm sure if you're in that situation you're going to be yelling at whatever
you're watching this on with you don't know what stress is make sure you stay towards the end and
I will list some things that didn't make the list but foreign types often complain about got it get
it good let's take a look number 10 stress level the United States is considered to be one of the
most stressed out countries on the planet that's during normal times I mean times of War like I
said about the Syria thing it can be a little bit different but the United States when it comes to
your education like in the universities when it comes to your bills when it comes to your
work life we've got a lot of stress stress is a natural reaction of the body to problems nobody
on the planet is stress-free the stress faced by immigrants is several times greater than the
usual worker or student in the United States if you're doing the paperwork and you're here
legally and all that stuff that's stressful enough but if you're not doing the paperwork and you got
to worry about being deported all the time that's adding even more stress onto an already stressful
life you have difficulties finding jobs adapting renting a home all that good stuff just adds to
an immigrant stress outside of Japan and a few other countries the average American worker faces
an overwhelming amount of stress that's part of the reason so many people are quitting and
they're doing side things like uber overeats and things like that instead of working for corporate
America quiet quitting is a thing we're hearing more and more about and that's when people just
kind of do the bare minimum of their job they're not trying to get ahead they're just trying to
get by and one of the main reasons that's going on is stress number nine Americans don't use the
train yeah that's not our thing we have trains they're somewhat getting more popular these days
but compared to Europe and parts of Asia we just don't use our trains we're a big country and most
the things we purchase they use the train but the people don't I'm a big fan of the train I've been
across the country several times on Amtrak I go up to Seattle from Portland on the train whenever
I'm going to Seattle I think in probably the 20 times I have been up to Seattle from Portland
since I lived here in the last 12 years I've taken the train all but twice and I'm an oddity there
aren't many people like me in the United States and Europe that's how most of them are it's like
Polar Opposites Granite are trains in most cases aren't as good as the trains in Europe but still
they should be used a lot more more and more places are adding trains to their local commute
like here in Portland but we're far behind most of Europe and if you're moving here from Europe
you're gonna kind of be shocked by it and if anyone tells you just take the Greyhound bus
or something don't do it Greyhound sucks number eight sales tax sales tax is added at the end
of your purchase it's almost like a surprise it's like they're deceiving you in most countries the
sales tax is added to the advertised price so if you go in someplace and it says 299 the sales tax
is already figured into that price if you're in the United States let's say California which has
the highest sales tax if you go in someplace throw down five dollars to buy something that says it's
five dollars they're gonna want another I don't know 35 cents from you that's not the exact math
because it changes all the time and I don't feel like looking it up but you get what I'm saying
now if you're not from the United States you might not know this but there are some states
that don't have sales tax where I am right now Oregon is one of them Delaware Alaska Montana
New Hampshire are the other states so that's five out of 50 states that don't have sales tax
number seven beware of our health care just about any Foreigner I've ever talked to knows that the
United States Health Care is a nightmare we're one of the richest countries and one of the most
developed and I'm sure most people would consider us the richest and the most developed country on
the planet there's an argument there that we won't get into but our Health Care system is far below
any other countries that are considered wealthy a democracy and developed when you look at outcome
and quality of Health Care the United States is ranked 18th among developed democracies and all
that good stuff it's like countries that are not doing great like Ethiopia or something like that
are not involved in this this is democracies that are developed and should be doing better we're
ranked 18th when you look at Cost it's ridiculous in 2019 before the pandemic money spent on public
health is eight thousand forty seven dollars per capita that takes up about 14 percent of the U.S
budget number two on that list is Luxembourg which is a lot smaller than the United States
in they spend about 5500 per capita and it takes up about five percent of their GDP again in 2019
it is estimated that the average American getting Private health care whatever spends
about twelve thousand dollars a year the average life expectancy of a United States citizen is
78.7 years we are the only developed country that doesn't have a life expectancy over 80 years most
of them are 82 to 84 years now there is so much more that could go into this one it gets very
political and that's not the point of this I'm just telling you if you're moving here from Europe
or something like that and you don't already know our Health Care system is not what you're probably
expecting number six extreme patriotism now there's nothing wrong with being a patriot to your
country doesn't matter what country you're from the United States whatever but when it goes too
far that's a problem and here in the United States we kind of have a problem with that sometimes and
it's kind of playing into the hands of politicians and there's a lot of frustration and a lot of our
extreme Patriots start off with phrases like if you don't like it here leave if you don't
love it leave you know stuff like that now in my opinion if you're a true patriot you don't
like it you try and fix it love it or leave it that mentality is kind of like a defeatist thing
and that's not being a patriot that phrase only comes up when it's things they don't agree with
but most those people if something came up where they were trying to regulate their guns or vegan
restaurants or freedom of speech trust me they'd stay around and fight but if it's something they
believe in and you don't believe in it and you have a problem with it they tell you to leave
the country now again nothing wrong with being a patriot nothing wrong with loving your country but
sometimes like anything things go to too far and it kind of bleeds into number five on this list
number five the political climate yes patriotism does play into this but the political climate
in this country right now is bad I don't care which side of the fence you're on it's just bad
both ways American citizens are at each other's throats more than any other time in the United
States history except maybe the civil war Civil Rights was pretty bad too but right now there is
a definite divide between parties in this country the inability for us to get along with each other
and try and work on problems is kind of dragging the country down and putting us in a bad situation
for our future and for our present what's funny about it is most the politicians are okay with
it they need it they use it they use us against each other so they could do things and they can
get elected and they could try and push things through Congress again this is something that
has a lot more to it and I just broad brushed the hell out of it if I was doing a three hour
video I could do it just on this subject every country has something like this in their civil
Wars all the time in other countries it's just something that the United States hasn't really
seen in decades and decades and decades at least this bad number four the crime rate like most
major cities on the planet we've got some crime but we have some cities here in the United States
where the crime rate is ridiculously bad Detroit south side Chicago St Louis East St Louis Kansas
City is pretty bad right now Memphis Tennessee my suggestion is stay away from there now some places
you may think are bad just from their reputation and how big they are aren't as bad as some of our
let's say not as famous cities New York City is not that bad when it comes to crime rate it's
got a history of that and there are some areas that you should stay away from but in general
the police kind of have a handle on it for being such a big city Los Angeles too we got some areas
there that you need to stay away from but yeah the crime rate in the United States is bad number
three the imperial system the United States is the land of pounds feet and inches not many countries
go that direction the USA is in a small Club of countries that don't use the metric system with
Myanmar and Liberia if you're not from here it is counterintuitive it's confusing it's downright
horrible if you're used to the metric system now this is something we got from the British
years ago that the British got over we just didn't now if you're in the United States I promise you
it doesn't seem like a big deal because you're used to it and you probably have a grasp of the
metric system because we teach the metric system other countries don't teach the imperial system
number two the homeless if you don't know already the homeless situation in the United States and a
lot of our major cities is at epidemic level go to Los Angeles San Francisco Oregon Seattle even in
Texas I was in San Antonio not too long ago last year and it was pretty bad there Dallas has a good
amount New York City has a ton Miami San Diego Denver Colorado is sort of fixing theirs I mean
they're the ones that make the most progress but it was bad for a while don't get me wrong other
countries have homeless other countries have ghettos and poverty and all that other stuff
we just have a bizarre amount of people living in tents on sidewalks here in Portland Oregon we've
finally got to the point where I mean people were going to be at the mayor's office with torches and
pitchforks if he didn't do something soon and in recent months they've been cleaning up the
sidewalk campsites in Portland Oregon and moving them to these designed areas a little outside of
the city is that a solution to the problem maybe maybe not but it's kind of making it look better
all right before we get to number one a couple different things one we have another Channel
called on this day there's a link down below we'd love it if you went over there and watch
some videos subscribed and some of the things that should have been on this list but they're
not racism it's a big problem here in the United States most countries have their
problems with racism it's a little bit much here in the United States lately I've seen
that a lot of other people from other countries say that our tax system is confusing and overly
complicated there are some countries that they just do their taxes for you they take out what
they owe or they tell you what you owe and you don't have to go through the process it's a pain
in the butt here in the United States I've also seen a lot of people talk about tipping
they don't get why we tip here all the time for everything for waitresses and waiters whatever
to me it's normal it's natural I was raised by a breakfast waitress who eventually went on to
own restaurants in a catering business but the early days it was kind of rough and she
relied on those tips we did I think in other countries I could be wrong but I think a lot
of other countries waiters and waitresses they get paid a lot more in the United States you
get minimum wage and you rely on your tips in most cases all right on to number one
and number one gun violence yeah it's all over the news you probably already know that we have
a serious gun problem here in the United States now I'm a gun owner myself I'm not saying we need
to get rid of all guns or anything like that but there needs to be a solution and we've never been
able to come up with one that entire country would agree on I mean we can't even get to 55
percent agree on something like this we don't have a week that goes by where there's something didn't
hit the news about some defective person using a gun in some horrific way it is one of the biggest
struggles we have here in the United States what do you do about this situation and I'm sure the
comment section is going to be filled with a bunch of people go I know what you do and they're going
to leave their opinion just remember not everyone shares that opinion all right that's today's
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