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Ryan, lets be honest, the Americans think the USA is the best etc is because they don't know better. The only country they know is the USA and then, how can they judge ? In many things the US is 50 years behind.
In education per example. In europe many countries have banned hitting childrens, sweden in 1979. In Us, the kids are still beaten with these assault weapons like paddes, belts, rods, they are yelled at and others many negatives manners ... Actually, the kids happyness survey places the nordic european countries at first, te US are in the end.
You can't judge all of the US. It's basically a continent. All you hear about in the news is the bad stuff. And yes there is a lot, but that does not mean the whole Country is bad.
americans believe america is the best mainly because everyone in school is brainwashed that way by teachers who believe thats true because THEY were taught that too. add in the pledge to their flag every morning. also their teachers wrongly teach their pupils how america invented everything recent from lightbulbs, cars to factories and the world wide web.
I think it’s the other way around. Many of you that don’t live in America try to tell us how are lives are so bad. Of course we aren’t going to agree with you because we don’t feel that way. And it is a paradise to many of us. Why is it wrong for us to love our country? You can love yours as well.
@@Kim-427 everything in relation. But this video is from an American who left America and will never come back. So he knows what the country is like and sees not only the good things but enough bad to leave. I like my country. But I completely understand if someone wants to leave and live somewhere else. It's a personal decision, not advice for 300+ million people. I would love to live in the British Isles. So many Brits think I'm crazy. The fact is, everyone makes their own decisions and as long as no one is harmed, no one needs to feel attacked or needs to dislike.
It's great that someone has the intelligence to use that "US Americans". There are many dozens of countries in America, so why does the U.S.A. have the right to use the term "americans?"
@@Kim-427 For many European countries patriotism/"love for your country" is an idea tainted by the Nazi's. It is seen as a scary thing because we learned that it's much safer to keep critical of what is happening in your country and what your country is doing.
@@annehoog yeah... patriotism/"love for your country" is over for European countries. I guess you never went to a football match between England vs France or Spain vs Italy.
To put safety in context. US intentional homicide rate is around 6.3/100k. We see lots of news about inmigration in EU making it unsafe, but the rate in germany for 2022 is 0.83, 0.61 in spain, 1.5 in france, 0.5 italy or 1.1 in UK. The best states in US, have between 1.5 and 2, and the worst go way above 10, we are talking 3rd world country rates here. US is generally unsafe, but you guys just got used to it.
Another part of the context is how unsafe it is to you. If gang wars in another city or part of the city prop up the stats and you are not affected by it, it's not your unsafety.
you can't compare Germany with the USA. The definition of murder varies. For example, if a woman kills her children, it is called infanticide and not murder and is usually punished extremely lightly. And infanticides are significantly more numerous than murders of adults. If everything were counted the same way as in the USA, the difference in the statistics would no longer be so big.
And the french number is due in huge part to it s overseas former colonies (Guyane in south america, new caledonia in the Pacific (which is currently in an uprising with police killing the rebels), mayotte and the Antilles) Mainland France is more on par with it s neighbors. 😅
@@alestbest The German Criminal Code does not recognize a crime named "infanticide"; that's called murder. Punishment is up to the court on a case by case basis. According to the Police Crime Statistics 2023, there were 704 murder cases in Germany in 2023, and a total of 3083 offenses against life (murder, manslaughter, accidental death, etc.).
2 days ago i was in the train in Germany coming back from my vacation and before i got off next to Frankfurt i met an American man and he was commuting to work and i could not help myself not asking him why come all the way here,he comes from San Diego which i understand it is pretty far from here and he said because here he can afford to work and also live in the same time without the psychological pressure he had there with his work and family life. He was also very exicited he had an upcoming vacation too and he was not worried like he was back home.
My daughter just moved to Germany. It is expensive here. They are in love with the open fresh air feel of their new town. She said it felt like being back at my grandfathers mountain cabin where we would go camping in the summer.
@@julienelson6506 I strongly recommend that your daughter stay's away from big cities, unfortunately big cities are filled with all the shady specimens, if she doesn't mind commuting a little or riding a bycicle 15-20 km which i regulary do, living outside a city is the best thing.
The quote...."The USA was certainly the best country, but those times are gone...." Um, no. Good yes, but the best? Wage rates, healthcare, personal safety, political self-interest, lack of social empathy and so on was always the other side of the coin that movies and TV programs refused to show. Just a tiny example of how the entertainment industry in the US has tried to delude the population over the decades is when a character in a TV show is injured, becomes ill or is a victim of a crime. They are taken to a hospital, are tested for this and that at huge expense. They'd be bankrupt afterwards and living in an alley way after they got out of the hospital to die of a crime, malnutrition and/or exposure. There are many other countries that have a far better record of looking after their citizens than the US has.
@@AussieFossil I think this “best country” thing comes from around the end of WW2, where US was an economic powerhouse aiding west, which was more like a 3rd world country during that time. Around the time of Truman doctrine, USA can be considered the best. Was it a good country from today’s standpoint? Hell no. But it could still be considered best for sometime. Just my thoughts though.
The US has never been the best country, even at its economic peak. Because their governments have never looked after the people. Third world practices in a country masquerading as a first world one. Crazy!
Hi Ryan. I visited the US from the UK in the 1960's, travelled around quite a bit, met great, helpful happy, people, had a great visit and never even thought about being unsafe. I visited again in 1994 and 2001. It was a total shock to me how much it had changed. Angry people rushing everywhere, prices in the shops were way higher than the UK, and people seemed much poorer. Some small towns looked so poor, they reminded me of my one trip to Russia in the 1970's. The US of the 1960's and now are, sadly, two different countries. I wish you could have seen it as I did. I fear, also, that it will only get worse, as people over there are deluded about how great the Country is. I think, for most people, the "American Dream" these days is just being able to survive.
This makes me anxious and sad. My daughter just married an American lad and although I have no issues with him, I do have many issues about the US as a whole. My main concern is that each government coins it in off the backs of the overworked people, but give nothing back to make their lives easier. Crazy!
@Roz-y2d I would be concerned too if my daughter was considering moving to the USA. A country where women are being allowed to die in need of a fairly simple medical procedure because of some medieval law is not a place I would want my child to be.
An American friend, who has been here to Australia briefly a few times, once offered to sponsor me to move permanently to the United States. He couldn't understand why I would not want to move there... I told him that, while I absolutely love visiting the US, I would never move there. The quality of life is just not as good as it is here. He was dumbfounded that I would think that after my many trips there. It is a difficult pill to swallow, for a lot of Americans, that there are many places around the world where life and opportunity are as good or better than that in the USA but without any of those problems that are uniquely American.
my FIL ask me to move to the USA, because its the greatest country... me, 100% German told him, Russia is bigger and i will never move here, because i want my family to be save! he suggested we can buy a gun if i feel unsafe...but i am not stupid... after he visited us a few years later, his only daughter never went to the USA after moving here, he noticed, we live very save! back at the airport, he told me he will never ask again... after our divorce, he ask her to come back, she refused, not wanting to endanger our child! and here, she got all benefits of an 1st world country ( she called the USA a 3rd world country )
Americans think the US is safe because they have a completely skewed perception of what safety means. Apart from physical attacks safety also means knowing that if you get run over by a car you won't have to go bankrupt to get treatment. Or you won't die from the terrible food standards that are filling your supermarkets.
Claims Chicago is the best place for food in the entire world, because of the good Italian food... completely forgets Italy exists...classic american...
some American told me he is over 50% German.... my answer, so, you are American! he been very shaken, because i told him in German, wich i can speak 100%, because i am German national, grown up in Germany and my parents are also Germans... he is just a guy from the USA, nothing more! my daughter is also 50% German genetics, but she is born in Germany, went to school in Germany, got German nationality, got a German passport and speaks German, next to Spanish, English and French!
Coming from the Philippines (now live in Germany). That guy is irritating. The place he lives in is very secured. All the roads leading to that part of Manila are blocked with security so no poor people can get in. Most of Manila is a dirty city! Bad infrastructure, expensive health care (if you want a good doctor and hospital) and a lot of corruption made us move to Germany. But we always felt very safe in P. But I totally understand that he prefers Philippines over US!
I'm not from the Philippines (I'm German) but I pretty much thought the same. The only reason why he can have a very good life there is because he earns his money in the US, in US Dollars. Would he work there to the local conditions for pesos his life would look very different.
Yeah, he is still extremely self-centered and ignorant in his analysis, traits seen in many Americans, who are used to thinking individually and with themselves as some sort of "default".
I grew up the first years of my life in a slum in muntinlupa right next to a mainroad. I moved to germany with my mother when she found an office job here. Now I've been living here for almost 25 years and occasionally visit family on the philippines. And you are completely right, the philippines suffer from extremely bad infrastructure, like badly maintained roads, literally no real traffic rules and regulation (to a point where the whole city of manila is one big traffic jam) and expensive healthcare that is pretty much just a worse copy of the already bad healthcare of the US. Also job opportunities are so bad that the country is losing all it's educated and skilled workers to other countries like Saudi Arabia, Europe or the US. I can't tell you much about safety because I wasn't allowed to leave the surrounding area as a young kid, but from what I saw from my occasional visits is that the rich areas are usually regularly patrolled by police and even Malls like SM have armed guards at the entrances, while the poorer areas are completely ignored.
Not really a disagreement, but when I used to live in BGC until 2018 there weren't any security checkpoints to get in or out. Given the insane number of people working in call centers there, that wouldn't be feasible anyway. There are plenty of (relatively) poor people around the Jeepney station at Market! Market! and in the shantytowns behind the American Cemetary but there are private security people deputized by the police on every corner, so people don't get into BGC proper except for work.
I left the USA over 50 years ago, and would not go back even if somebody paid me. The major reasons were both political AND personal (health care + free education ++). And none of these has improved in half a century -- no, they have gotten far worse. The USA is no longer even listed as a democracy. I'll stay where I am, thank you.
I am a bit jealous, lol, after all, even though I have mostly visited Europe, thanks to college trips, I have been trying to figure out how to get the heck out of the U.S and which country to go to. but I have a mental medical condition that has interfered with me doing so by trying to figure out which country would be the best in regards to all the standard stuff along with someone like me who has epilepsy yet is able and willing to work, it just has to be part time. Also I would like to be able to do my own business, not just work for ones already there.
I don’t blame you, I spent 10 yrs in the US and would never go back. Quality of life is awful there, the work life balance is terrible. Americans have no idea unless they move abroad how life really is elsewhere. They are taught from birth that the USA js the best country in the world! Groceries are 35-50 % cheaper in England vs the US, Health care and guns, cost of education are of course other reasons to leave the US. Lack of paid maternity leave, lack of mandated vacation time, paid sick leave. Even things like cell phones are so outrageously expensive in the US. My phone costs me £5 per month in England . Banking is so far behind in the US, the internet speed is slower there too.The list goes on. I think more Americans are finally waking up and seeing that you can have a far less stressful life outside of the US!
@@viktorgabriel2554 -- Yes, we pay for it, but not the humongous amounts that US citizens pay (tuition and fees) and then have to pay again via copay. Only to finally find out that their insurance does not cover that particular medical expense. Plus an ambulance ride is "free", too. Also, I never feared my children would be shot at school.
my FIL ask me to stay, promised me a job, house and car.... i said no, because i have a save life in Europe, benefits of a strong passport, health care for every member of my future family and no guns in school! after his first visit, he told me he will never ask again...! after our divorce many years later, he ask her when she comes back... she never left, stayed here.... why leaving for a 3rd world banana republic, if you can live in Europe! her words!
Ryan give me 3 good reasons to return to America. I can give you more than reasons not to return. Healthcare, education, safety, parental rights and workers rights. Also, work work-life balance. Overall living outside of America you have a great standard of life and a better chance of remaining alive. Gun ownership is a privilege, not a right. Let's be honest here America is a 3rd world country in respect of taking care of its citizens. Your tax dollars fund your military and nothing else. As far as freedom goes what freedoms do you have that I don't.Your so-called freedoms have been eroded women don't have the freedom to get an abortion under any circumstances and a doctor can go to prison for doing their job. So much for the land of the free.
Dude you are actually lieing a bit here women have the rights to get an abortion in America they have so much a right that more black people die at the hands of abortion then at the hands of gun crime. And i dont know any Central European who has felt safe in their country in the last 10 years considering how the government is forcing a culture class whit in their own nations. Europe has been attacking parental rights in the last 8 years that is also a bad argument. Right now you can go to prison for misgendering a person in Canada and many parts of the EU as well as not bending the knee to Authoritarians can get you harassed by the police in Australia hell people in the UK are being arrested for waving their flag chanting that they are proud of the UK. If you are wondering i am European and i wont pretend that we can stand on some mutilated high horse most Europeans have no idea what is going on in their own country since they are more focused on what Twatter tells them about America
from an outsider's perspective: I wouldn't be afraid of getting robbed in the States (it is scary if it happens, ofc), but I would be scared to shit that somebody with lacking impulse control draws randomly a gun because you have a minor disagreement - especially if people are intoxicated
I thought the other day that the „American Dream“ might have become one of the biggest problems in the US. People believe so deeply in that concept of working hard enough will make you wealthy, that they don‘t see the necessity of becoming a more social country (besides framing everything social=socialist=communist), cause they think everyone struggling was just not very diligent. I can see how this mindset makes it difficult to excite the American taxpayer for social programs like a more affordable healthcare, unemployment assistance or increasing the minimum wage. One might think: „Why should I support all these people with my tax money when they are only too lazy to do better?“
Ryan, you're only safe when you never think about the concept of feeling unsafe. I know, it sounds stupid but I'm over 60, visited most of Europe and never expierenced the concept of feeling 'unsafe', you just don't think about that concept.
You just said most people aren't even thinking of retirement until they are 70 the average age of man living in America is 74 good luck with those 4 years of retirement
I chose to retire at 62 as I did not need to work any longer and I felt, having been employed since the age of 17, that I had spent enough of my life commuting. When employed I had enjoyed the 5+ weeks of paid annual time off plus public holidays. In my last year I had negotiated my working week down to 4 days (pro rata reduction in wage) and two of them were working from home. The two days going in just tipped me over into full retirement. How's that American Dream going for all those slaves in the USA. I say slaves because I feel the master/slave mentality still pervades a lot of the USA.
poland... small tourist trap town... me at 16 walking around the town at 2 am afyer bonfire we had in my backyard and we just were admiring new light poles they just installed how much more light they make compared to the old ones. and nothing really changed over 20 years since then, only they replaced streat light 3 times going to a park after dark to bother ducks was also a thing, and when beavrs infestated the park lake they could only be seen active after sunset also my 17 years old sister was returning alone from 3 days camping rock festival over 400 kilometer train trip, and nothing happened to her either (she was on that festival multiple times with friends before and after that , no supervision) life is just different outside usa
just move to another state where the employer has to cover it .... i talk to other americans and they get angry every time i mention the health insurance issues in america cuz from their PoV thats a clichee invented by non-americans to shit on the country, but they never experienced such stuff. §wife needs a complex operation in the ear canal to restore her hearing (probably)? well yeah lets try it! ---- but what about the cost i ask? ---- which costs god dammit, i pay my health insurance and so its covered" that's the american experience on health care, if u r in the right place and maybe also the right field of work
Why is the crime rate so low?? The question should be: why is it so high in the usa? Or: why do americans accept the crime rate to be this high, and think its normal?
Work hard and you will succeed! No.. you will help your boss and the company shareholders succeed while you have no work/life balance and pray you don't get sick. 😢
I live in Sweden, with the high gang violence with guns and bombs everywhere. I still feel safer here than in any of the places in the States that I have spent extended time in. I used to live in Florida and basically lived in Chicago too since I had in-laws there and visited them so much it sure felt like I lived there. I was in NYC in 2014, I didn't feel comfortable most of the time there. Safety and quality of life is subjective. It all depends on what you compare it too. My quality of life is better here than in the US, but only marginally. I can visit the doctor whenever and not have to worry about costs, the food is healthier, I have access to more services such as the taxes are pre-filled and all I have to do is make sure the numbers are correct. There are a lot of stuff I wish we had that the US does, such as AC and bigger homes and much more stuff that make our lives much easier and more convinient. Every place has it's perks and drawbacks. The friendly outgoing attitudes would be nice on occation. Swedes are basically introverts, Americans extroverts. USA isn't the land of the free unless you live in the taxfree bracket of the billionaires. Inflation hit us all. Food in Sweden is way higher than in rest of Europe. Inflation is down, yet food prices keep going up. Greed is universal.
Greed? Don't like it? Move to the Socialist Paradise called, Venezuela. The Chavez and Maduro's and their cronies have ransacked the countries' wealth. Kumbaya! Greta Thunberg would LOVE it.😂😂
I read somewhere in the comments of another video that the new american dream is, to leave the USA 😅 Oh, and about prices for flights: i can take a Ryanair flight to Dublin or London.... (from Luxemburg, which is the nearest Airport from where i live in Germany) for 15 Euro (one way, only handluggage)😁
OMG…I lived in Manila for nearly 4 years and ITS THE MOST DANGEROUS AND SCARY PLACE TO LIVE. It’s a vile and scary place. You get frisked to enter any shop, police with machine guns are everywhere, you can’t walk at night as you will get mugged (especially for you Nikes/adidas) and most people with money live in walled and gated compounds with guards carrying guns. I have worked in 6 countries and visited over 45 other countries and the Philippines is the absolute scariest, dirtiest and most unsafe place I have been. This guy has lost the plot😱
But this all changes when you get paid in dollars or euros by a foreign company like he does. As an average local person Manila is probably a bad and scary place. But with getting paid in foreign currency he's suddenly the rich guy and can have the best life. You can have a good life anywhere in the world if you're considered the rich guy in this place.
I have visiten Manila Teo years ago, streets were cut with fe ces at night, dividing rich people from poor people. I have seen policemen with machine guns. So I have to say I completely agree with you.
Born, raised and living in Norway. Now in a VERY rural area. But I have lived in three of our largest cities. I have never feel unsafe, ever. Not even alone in the streets of Oslo at 3 in the morning. Never...
Actually, there's a thing called "safety index" and US ranks 88th in it, while Philippines rank 62. These rankings are from mid 2024. Also, I don't know the entire budgeting of Philippines but in India, you need 1500-2000$ per month to live a 1% lifestyle, which covers rent for a 4BHK penthouse, a cleaning maid, a full time cook, all food costs, dining on alternate weekends in a 5 star restaurant and an EMI of a good SUV(not the expensive ones but above average). I live in a tier 2 city in India and all this for me costs ~1000$ per month, which I can afford easily as I work from home for a US based IT company. Also, India ranks 66th in safety index so it's still safer than many other countries.
Criminals most of time attack other criminals. And yes I’m aware of incidents where things happen but that can occur anywhere. I’m 61 yrs old,black and female. I’ve like in urban areas and suburbs and I’ve NEVER been a victim of crime. You can quote statistics but I can share my real life experiences. I’ve lived in America all my life and statistically I am supposedly more likely to be a crime statistic but I’m not. So what now?!
@@Kim-427 now the thing is that there’s a very high likelihood that you’ll not have a crime committed against you in other 2 countries as well. 🤷🏻♂️ I appreciate your personal experience but the thing is, there are people not as lucky as you, and they have a higher likelihood of crimes being committed against them in USA than in other countries. I understand this can be an emotional subject but that’s why statistics matter more in these cases because otherwise we’ll just consider the most recent cases of bad personal experiences while figuring out which country is safer, which will take us in all the wrong directions.
@@AyushSaxena-mc7nl As I said it can happen anywhere. You just can’t go on a tirade as if America is the only dangerous country in the world it’s just not true. And you can’t discount my personal experience and that of others because it doesn’t fit your narrative. Two things can be true at the same time. And you’re right I’m apart of the group that is more likely to have a crime committed against me. I guess you overlooked my statistics.
@@Kim-427that's called anecdotal evidence and it doesn't negative actual statistics. You are one person out of over 300 million. Your experience is only yours, and you are a minuscule part of the picture.
@@Kim-427 I never said America is the most dangerous country, infact it’s ranked 88 out of 192, which is in the top 50 percentile, making America safer then over 50% of the countries in the world. Also, I acknowledged your personal experience, but you choose to ignore other American’s personal experience because it doesn’t fit your narrative. The ranks are not random numbers assigned to a country, they are based on the number of people who had crimes committed against them, and their horrendous experiences. You being lucky does not change the experiences of those thousands of people who weren’t as lucky as you. Yes, you have more likelihood of being a victim, but you’re not one because you’re lucky, others weren’t that lucky.
Americans like to brag about how great their democracy is but according to the Economist Democracy Index (2023) the USA is not even ranked a full democracy any more, but a "flawed democracy", well behind most European countries, Canada, South Korea and Taiwan. And you've seen the higher quality of life in Europe, Canada, Australia. Just get a skill and move out. The world's your oyster.
The US was perhaps the best country in the world in terms of propaganda and the insight that their imperial goals could best be achieved through media domination (backed by a soupçon of bombing and/or invading dozens of other countries). Unfortunately for them this has backfired recently, partly because of developments on the digital front and partly because the domestic media cycle (news in particular) is so toxic - not to say self-defeating. It is now clear to anyone with a basic understanding and access to US media that the emperor is not wearing any clothes. There seems no clear path to solving the deep problems and divisions which have prevailed in the US for decades now. Lobbying and the self-serving attitude it promotes have made Congress ineffectual and corrupt, the electoral system is deeply un-democratic and there is little or no chance that the constitution will be revised, updated or even amended any time soon. The lack of any decent social safety net (health care in particular) continues to cause unnecessary fear, insecurity and suffering, gun and car culture both cost inordinate numbers of lives, as do the scarcely regulated pharmaceutical and food sectors. No wonder plutocrats feel increasingly unashamed about arrogantly flaunting their obscene wealth. Other than that, nice country you've got over there!
My experience of America, outside of the tourist areas, is of bleakness. Everything is too big, too much space. Sort of empty. A car is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. Great to visit the special sights, etc, but to live? Definitely not.
I lived in the US for 31years and loved it. Lovely safe suburban area, walked the dog in the dark. Worked in the British Embassy, so my working conditions were way superior than the US conditions. Medical Insurance is the most expensive in the world. We were covered by the Embassy. So all in all it was very nice. Unfortunately when we retired, our visas were cancelled, so we are back in the UK. No regrets, we live in a beautiful village in Cambridgeshire.
@@dianeleitch A nice unbiased opinion. But,One thing I can object to you weren’t living better than most. Many Americans live as good as you were living. And the average earner in America lives better than the average wage earner in the UK. And many employers offer health insurance. And if they don’t you can be covered by state insurance.
@Kim-427 my point was we were under the British government, so we got 30days anual vacation, plus all the holidays throughout the year. All with full pay. We could take how much time off at one time as we wanted.We left messages on our phone and email telling everyone when you would be back and not to leave messages. Sick .leave was unlimited. If your sick, you stay at home on full pay until better. No hiring and firing with little warning. Actually can be quite difficult to just fire someone without good reason. I worked in the American sector for 3 years the lack of vacation time was unbelievable. If you don't know anything about working conditions in other countries then everyone is.. OK.
About the prices for flying... I'm in Belgium. I've been flying around Europe (mainly more southern) for less than 100 euro return tickets. So that includes many trips to France, Italy and Spain, and not only to small cities. Even to some of the major cities. It's sometimes cheaper to fly from Brussels to for example Verona, Italy, than from my hometown Antwerp to the sea side in Belgium by train (which is about 1.5h ride one way). Ryanair is super cheap to fly, but not always the best service. But I even manage to fly cheap with big airlines when I take the time to look for the right tickets. Love living in Europe ;)
And wait till you get old and need serious healthcare. I kept a team of neurosurgeons at Gasthuisberg busy for the day. Cost me almost 300$. Just to say that we have top notch healthcare where the bill does not kill you. (You do suffer the ministrations of students but the need to learn somewhere ;-))
@@astranger448 I stayed 5 weeks in hospital too. Costed me about 300 euros, mainly for extra and nicer coffees and magazines from the shop downstairs ;)
Ryan thinking the US is a safe country says it all. Here every week at night some bored jerks play with firecrackers and/or fireworks. It's annoying, but I never once thought "Holy sh*t this is a gun's sound"
American who has been robbed and assaulted in small towns and big cities in the USA. I now live in Vienna, Austria (pop. roughly 2 million) and I feel safe enough here to walk by myself in the middle of the night in all but a couple districts. Expensive property and equipment is left out all over the city and, for the most part, is left untouched. Society is different here. Lifestyles are different here. The socio-economic landscape is different here. I will never go back to the USA, not even for a visit. Just not worth it to me.
I spent a week in Vienna a few months ago. You are correct. Safety, public transportation, quality of life, social civility there are all superior to the U.S. Alas, I'm too old to emigrate.
Sorry to burst your bubble Ryan but there is only about 30 countries in the world that is classed as more dangerous country to live than the USA, and a lot of these are because of current armed conflicts there. There are around 132 countries in the world classed as safer to live in than the USA...including the Philippines.
Lol this guy probably works remote for US company, while living in Manila and saying he can live like a king there. Of course with US income. The average salary in Manila according to google is 600$ / month brutto. While rent for 3 bedroom flat in city center is over 1500$ a month.
Dutch dude here that lived for 6 months in NYC. I love the US in many ways. The biggest thing that would hold me back to live there, would be healthcare. Don’t get me wrong, your healthcare is good (I worked in Mount Sinai Medical Center during those 6 months), but the prices are insane!!! 😱 Even if you are insured, you will get a hefty bill when something happens. It is sad to hear about the many people that became homeless, because they had to sell their house or got evicted, because they could not pay the medical bills. The Netherlands has a great healthcare system (I work in a hospital over here as well). It is mandatory for people to pay health insurance which is about $150 a month, but when something happens, you won’t see a bill. Need an ambulance? No bill! Need brain surgery with 2 months aftercare in the hospital? No bills! The only additional costs we have is that the first 385 euro you spend on healthcare each year, comes out of your own pocket. The rest is free. Yes, totally free! Because the many pay a little, the few that need it, can get affordable healthcare. Even the individuals that are healthy, can break a leg, get old or get piece of mind that if something happens, they still have a root over their head. For me that is the most important reason not to live in the USA. Cheers, Rick
Ryan, I grew up in the sixties and seventies. I grew up during the last time when The American Dream was still being lived. My family was effectively upper middle class. We could live on my father's salary alone, though my mother chose to work out of the house after we were in our teens so that she wasn't bored. By the time I was in my twenties, things were changing. Prices were skyrocketing. People my age were starting to be concerned and we began considering that my generation would be the first generation that didn't go farther than their parents. That was true for many people I know, though many still lived their dreams. More importantly, when I grew up people related to each other, knew each other, weren't afraid of each other without cause, and generally liked each other. Neighbors were friends and often like extended family. What changed? We experienced a move toward conservatism and hyper-capitalism. Roosevelt Truman and Congress had created a regulatory structure that helped to form that growing middle class. Reagan and subsequent governments undid those so that businesses and the wealthy got bigger shares of the profit of business and industry, and the Unions took a severe beating from what they had been. With greater societal stress, crime tends to rise. Now, of course, the economic differences are becoming economic gulfs. The American Dream from my perspective was never everyone getting rich. It was everyone living a good and productive life, pretty much, on their own terms. If I could afford to move to another country, I would. This is not the country I grew up in, even though it is the same land, and I don't much like this one. Very interesting video. I look forward to part 2 if there was one. Peace
The rot started _decades_ before Reagan. In fact, it probably started with the suburbs. See, suburbs are a black hole of finance, costing far more to maintain in the long term than its taxes can ever cover, so to ensure they can pay off those costs, the cities authorise suburban expansion/sprawl, which works initially, but makes things worse in the long-term. And the more the suburbs sprawl, the worse it gets. Most US cities today are drowning in debt built up over decades, leaving them vulnerable to the influence of corrupt corporation.
Almost everything that has advanced civilisation like piston rings, penicillin World Wide Web coax cables, jet engines etc have been invented by Brits. And you don’t hear us saying we are the best country in the world. We aren’t brought up to say that. We would think it was very distasteful. Not good form
Oh wow - the look on Ryan's face when he learned this family was leaving the USA to go to the Philippines! Though he admitted he knew nothing about the islands those few seconds showed so clearly that he would have unconsciously classed it as one of those non-USA places a former US president dismissed as shitehole places. 😉He's done so many vids on Europe & Oz that I think he's somewhat forgotten that there's so many more other cultures, histories, customs, natural beauties - and food! - all across this big, beautiful globe we live in.
You're right, he definitely looked stunned that the Philippines was preferred over the US in this case. And he was not wrong. The Philippines is indeed a shitehole place. Basically the guy moved to a rich gated community protected by the army and said "this is the Philippines" lol....
Ryan, people in the US sometimes have no paid vacation or maybe 2 weeks per year. In Europe, many jobs have a minimum of 4 weeks. Health care outside the US does not bankrupt anyone as health care is available either free or for a minimum amount. Guns! What to say on this. There are just too many out there. These reasons come again and again.
The average american has a better quality of life than people in developing countries, but scrape the bottom for developed ones. The american middle class is alas also all but eliminated whereas it's the vast majority of people in other developed countries.
Who would want to move to America with no personal safety, child safety at school, a nightmare, no work-life balance, high cost of living, and really expensive health care? There's the rest of the world that's safer, cheaper, and with freedom to walk the streets. There is no America dream, sad but true.
I looked at the current Global Peace Index, which, by a large number of criteria, ranks countries by the safety and security for its citizens. Philippines: 104 ....... Brazil: 131 USA 132 Iran 133
@@bognagruba7653 Every European country (except - for some strange reason😏) Russia and Ukraine is placed higher on that list than the USA; Germany: 20😉.
Only people who never left their country are convinced they live in the best country. As more you travel the more you understand the Pros and Cons of each of the countries. For sure there are better and worser countries overall. But each definitely have their Pros and Cons. But however you rate it - overall the US will only be average, best case. And the average position is only reached by it's tremendous economical power and maybe some national natural monuments which are compensating so many other things where it is far below average - sometimes on the level of third world countries. Including especially the term 'freedom' which they are so proud of without understand a lot of other countries have much more real freedom as they have.
LOL I think you should talk to some people from the Philippines about what he has to say. I don't think he's making a wage there, he wouldn't be in that place for damn sure.
I’m currently in the US and lunch today at Denny’s after tax and tip was $51USD whereas the same meal back home in Australia would have cost the equivalent of $31USD inclusive of tax (no tip but tipping in Australia isn’t the norm or expected). Considering the disparity in incomes between the US and Australia one does wonder how the “normal Joe” is coping in the US.
I am American, and left 19 years ago, lived in Holland,Germany and ended up in Denmark and every single country is better than the US. In Denmark I work 37 hours a week. With my taxes I get 6 weeks vacation, healthcare, my girlfriend just gave birth after 5 days in the hospital and paid 0 dollars. My girlfriend gets a year of maternity leave, my child gets dental until shes 18 and money to go to university. Its so safe here, people regularly put their babies outside to sleep because kids dont get kidnapped or murdered. Its safe as hell and I never have to worry about school shooters, serial killers or nothing like that. I dont plan on returning because the US is turning into a dumpster fire.
You know a dane will pay 25-35 dollars for a return plane ticket to anywhere in Europe ? That's less than a night out to go to any city around Europe. Back in 2008 a return plane ticket was about 16 dollars.
In 1984 I worked a summer in the US as an exchange student and then spent the rest of my visa time touring the country on Greyhound busses. Loved the place, space to be large in, Yosemite is GREAT. Then I went home, got to shoot a rifle for the first time by joining the army and for the last time by leaving the army. I'm an old fart now, got some recent heavy duty medical work done, brain tumor removal. Cost me all of 300$. And you would not get me to the US today if you gave me money for it. Too many nuts with guns and my American pen pall told me how much her knee surgery cost her. One's too risky and the other was more money than I've ever seen in my life.
His reaction to plane ticket got me curious and I check how expensive they are in my country (Poland). For some more context: I never flies on plane, I never needed to, trains are just fine and I can easy travel around the country with them. Also ticket prices here are crazy. If you know where and how search, or get luckly you can find something really cheap (I once bought a 1 class to my hometown for ~5/6+ USD, it was a around 3h train ride). So I just open a random traveling pages, put the same dates and destonation and check for the cheapest and more expensive tickets. Train: min: ~25 USD for the night and ~28 for the day max: ~55 USD Plane: min: ~57 USD max: ~146 USD Both are from Kraków to Gdańsk in a few weeks from now, and while searching for plane tickets I had to put a return date, so they are round trip tickets while train are one way. And before someone write 'yu counrty small/poor, USA is too big', the distance between Kraków and Gdrańsk is around 485 km in straight line and my last paycheck was ~990 UDS. So I could buy 35 day train tickets. I didn't intend to proof or offend anyone, I just did a small research while recovering in bed.
We live just outside the city centre of Milano. We never close our backdoor, we never lock the doors of our cars if they aren’t in the garage. This is a newer neighbourhood with bigger houses and the neighbours aren’t that close to us. Never heard about burglars. I drive my bike to school, even if some tourists say Milano isn’t safe, in the city you might have some pick pockets, but never saw anything happen. I feel much safer here than I felt during my 3 months exchanged program in the US.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans report living paycheck to paycheck, according to a recent MarketWatch Guides survey. - that's Working Class, not middle class.
American dream has never been about equal opportunities. In fact if the "wrong" people were successful, they were literally attacked. Case in point what happened in Tulsa in 1921.
Last time I popped over to the States was in 2018 for a city break in NY for four nights just to do a spot sightseeing as the last time I was there previously was in 1981. I used to live in a suburb of Pittsburg. Over there for work from the UK. Now I know New Yorkers have a reputation for being a tad brusque but my goodness people were plain rude and I was robbed, police simply gave me a crime number for my insurance company. The only nice person was a very large chap who was one of the security chaps in Trump Tower who told me to turn my hand bag around so the flap faced inward. I will not be returning. Sorry America but you have changed beyond all recognition. I thought the UK was bad but you have us beat hands down in the bloody awful stakes.
Hello from the heart of Europe, Czech Republic. I regularly go on a walk in the midnight :D I sometimes return from a pub in 2 or 3 AM and I walk all the way from downtown to my "suburb" (or more like city disctrict) :D
The shrinking middle class is really bad, because it's the middle class that drives consumption. The filthy rich can buy a new yacht once a year and a new Tesla every month and stuff themselves with pricey foods and drinks and it won't really show up in the balance sheet. So when the middle class gets poorer, the consume less, people get unemployed (middle class) when shops and malls close down, tax income plummets (not that you gets get much from the federal tax, I guess) but county/state certainly will notice. So services will become more expensive or dropped altogether. Then what?
Ryan, you summed it up when talking about suburbs as being ‘ pretty safe.’ In my town in the UK it’s not pretty safe, it just safe. And the next town and the next. I have to drive 2+ hrs to a specific area of a major city before it’s pretty safe. And pretty safe with no firearm risk.
Why does an American work so much, so long and so hard.....to be able to pay for everything. I have wondered before why you pay monthly health insurance premiums, but if you are admitted to the hospital you pay at least 15,000 dollars on top of that!.... so you are paying monthly for nothing or are you paying for the offices and the employer of that insurance company who would like to enjoy his pension money and will enjoy it? and then the question why so long and so hard, we work hard here too, but we really do stop after the hours stated in your contract, and if something does not suit us we go to the employer (who we address as YOU) and do not humbly follow everything the employer tells you to do, you have rights but apparently they do not exist in ''the land of opportunities''. If Americans would just wake up to the fact that they can work less, earn more (teenagers here earn more per hour than someone who has 3 jobs in the USA) and have more fun instead of bending over backwards to pay the bills and your employer......what a change THAT would make in ''the land of the free''.....we in Europe can do it, so it can in the USA too. wake up and stand up for your rights
One thing I've heard about the Philippines is that if you are poor, it's difficult to get medical treatment. I don't know if it's still true, but young Philippinos often move abroad to work and send money back to their families. The last time I was in hospital, a lot of the nurses were from the Philippines.
If we speak about first world countries. I am most happy I was not born in the US. And the US is where I least would want to live out of first world countries. It rates below many 3 world countries on many things. Safety, poverty, healthcare. And so on. I don't even want to go on vacation in the US anymore. because of how crazy it has just become. Quality of life is much lower in general and on average in the US, compared to other first world countries.
There are only two things the USA is more efficient at without qualification, consumption and violence both military and domestic, every other metric (especially social policy) it is average or below. The American dream is no longer come and we will give you space to achieve what the strength of your back deserves along with freedom from tyranny. The dream now requires you to be "Gordon Gecko" and money is the only measure of wealth, achievement and social value.
I was flying from Prague to Paris for 30 euros back ticket. We were three, so less then hundred euros for all. We found an apartment for 4 nights for 670 euros in the Paris center. With tickets on Eiffel tower, galleries, Seina cruise and meals, we were for less then 1500 euros in Paris. .
There are millions of Americans living abroad. There are many countries you can live for under $2000, $1500, even $1000 a month. Many of these countries have good healthcare, and it's universal for all. Doctor visits are cheap enough that many just pay out of pocket. The idea the media gives you about the rest of the world is rarely accurate. I recommend everyone do their research rather than stay here and struggle. That social security check that can't support people here will make you middle class is some countries. Social Security and SSDI transfer to most countries around the world. My mother started working at 14 until she had a heart attack in her 60s. She died poor, and I refuse to like that life so I've been planning my move. 😊
The last time that there were no shootings in a whole week in the USA was in 2014. There have been a minimum of 1 though on average 2-3 shootings per week since.
There are lots of places where planes are really cheap! like the canari island, for non regular it's like 80 euros 1fly between islands, but for the people who live on one and work on an other you can have a yearly card (like for bus). Or when i was a student we made several wkend trips from La Rochelle (where i studied in france) to London UK for a measly 20euros
Most burglars will avoid rich homes because they can usually afford the best security, have harder houses to break into Ideal is middle class because poor people will often expect to be robbed or be very protective over their stuff While middle class don't think themselves rich enough to be a target and often leave themselves open like doors unlocked, valuable items in cars, open windows, etc
As soon as I saw where he's filming (luxury apartment) I thought it had to be somewhere like BGC in Manila (Which it turns out it is) or IT Park in Cebu City. All power to him I reckon to be able to afford to make the move to somewhere his family feels safe(r). No he won't see the reality of every day life of the average Filipino, but his family didn't move there to do that. I've lived in the US a couple of times over the years and seen the slow decline first hand and the US isn't unique in this respect. All empires fall eventually. Cheers, from an Aussie living in a reasonably remote area of the Philippines (central Negros for those that know the country - no, not Dumaguete or Bacolod).
I think the problem is Americans are brought up to believe they are the most free have the most opportunities have more rights etc . All these things can mean different things in other countries . Free from gun crime , free from having to worry weather to call that ambulance , free from fear of losing a job if take too much sick leave/ holiday etc . These are the things that make me feel more free.
Crime rates in the US are mostly high, because of there are no safety nets and the minimum wage is so low, so some people have to commit crime to make a living. Also, repeat offenders are much more common, because government does not invest enough in rehabilitation. So offenders are not able to get a job, so they are pretty much forced back into crime again.
I'm Ukrainian who used to live in Britain for 2 years and then moved to the US. I was able to afford like twice more for myself in just like half a year of living here than I was able to in the UK living there for 2 years. It says a lot. The pay is way higher here in the US (in my case), but pretty much any stuff is more affordable, generally. I live in ND. Yes, groceries are more expensive just comparing prices and not taking salaries into account, but any devices are more affordable. Like smartphones, laptops, monitors, TVs and so on. A price in the UK would be pretty much the same or exactly the same, but in quids. Mainly because of the sales tax over there which is like 20%. And this makes up like 30% higher prices for that kinda stuff and considering the pay over there (particularly in Scotland in the outskirts of Glasgow where I used to live) it makes a significant overall difference in terms of affordability. Also, I'd say, generally European employers demand more and pay less. I was fired in the UK for bringing my own drink into a warehouse though everyone else was doing the same and nobody else was fired for that, but me. Yes, the company had such a rule, but pretty much nobody was complying with that cuz it's ridiculous and eventually the supervisor made a complaint just about me. And then I was looking for my next job for like several months and ended up working for the minimum wage cuz I had no choice. And my point is that, not just a small pay, but also the lack of options over there contributes to the quality of life. I assume that the UK is overpopulated and that's the outcome. A small pay and a job search struggle. Whereas here they booked me a flight from the UK and paid for it just because North Dakota isn't really populated state and they have no choice, but hire Ukrainians. I work for a factory in rural ND.
Additionally, of course I'm kinda biased about the US since I've been obsessed with this country for about 15 years. I truly love the US and I wanna stay here forever, but I brought in some solid points comparing it specifically to the UK. I could've also compared it to Poland, but that's pointless. I think everybody understands that the UK is way more developed than Poland. And I'm pretty sure that some Polish people will confirm that reading my comment since a lot of them move to Britain or go there to work like Ukrainians used to go to Poland for.
The UK is far from overpopulated, which is just neo nazi lies . There is plenty of room, and especially in Scotland, we need people due to a falling birthrate and ageing population
When i was a kid I thought America was great and I would love to live there, now I definitely wouldn't I'd much rather stay here in England, it's so much safer and better for your mental wellbeing
The fundamental problem in the USA is the fact the American Civil War about liberty, abolition of slavery (in the mind of some Americans) is still not ended....It is just an uncomfortable never been settled ceasefire. I am afraid a small spark is enough to start the dormant fire again.
