Been seeing a lot about how the government passes shitty laws, lot of mass shootings and expensive asf health care. I come from a developing nation and we were always told how America is great and whatnot. Are all states is America bad ?

  • kersplooshA
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    1 year ago

    No. The US has its problems but it’s not the hellhole people like to make it out to be.

    It helps to look at the US in parts rather than as a homogeneous block. The country is huge and varied with 300M people in a land area larger than Europe. Laws can be wildly different from state to state, especially on hot topics like abortion or gun ownership or drug possession. Some states are filthy rich and others are depressingly poor. Some places are perfectly safe and others are dangerous.

    For example, take a look at these maps comparing US states to European countries. Depending on the metric the US can look great or awful compared to Europe.