Sure, it is a rich and developed country after all. It's not horrible. It's just not really special if you're looking out for your own quality of life as opposed to how prominent the country is.
This is doubly so if you don't associate with the stereotypical American lifestyle of working 50 hours a week, 10 days vacation per year, and sending out work emails while holding your newborn baby.
Listing specific things is pointless – all these ratings are online anyway, but just to name a few:
- fucked up health care system
- gun violence rate higher than in most third world countries
- homicide rate worse than any other developed country, and worse than countries like Niger, Laos, India, or Iran
- those best universities will put you in a $200K+ debt hole that you'll spend a lifetime getting out of, and the mediocre universities are not cheap either (compared to almost free education in many developed countries)
This is doubly so if you don't associate with the stereotypical American lifestyle of working 50 hours a week, 10 days vacation per year, and sending out work emails while holding your newborn baby.
Listing specific things is pointless – all these ratings are online anyway, but just to name a few:
- fucked up health care system
- gun violence rate higher than in most third world countries
- homicide rate worse than any other developed country, and worse than countries like Niger, Laos, India, or Iran
- those best universities will put you in a $200K+ debt hole that you'll spend a lifetime getting out of, and the mediocre universities are not cheap either (compared to almost free education in many developed countries)