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Yi_Long posted...

This. I love your pop-culture, food, and the country is no doubt beyond gorgeous in places, but I really wouldnt do well there.

Our country is treated like an economic powerhouse with a job to do over an ideal place to live.

At least, that's how they constantly justify privatizing almost everything and putting corporations on a pedestal. Anything that threatens the income of a corporation is treated as a national threat. It's a pattern that repeats itself everywhere, even our streets were lobbied by automobile manufacturers so that public transportation just doesn't make sense. What you call corruption these people call a positive thing. They say we can't fall behind China, or fall behind on the world stage.

It's probably the reason why, even though we are culturally basically the same as Canada or England, they have much more solid welfare safety nets, because they don't worry about being the most powerful country on Earth. Or at least use that as an excuse to let CEOs walk all over them.