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Daily Discussion Thread: Sat 12 Aug 2023 (aussie.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Better food? Food quality in the U.S. is horrendous.
Smarter people? How have you determined that?
God help you if you get sick in the U.S. You could easily be bankrupted depending on your circumstances.
let's not get started on their gun policies and the mass shootings seemingly ever other week.
There are differences in per capita GDP but the reasons for that are more complex than mere superiority.
I won't deny Australia tends to import a lot of culture from US/Britain etc, but sometimes they import us as well i.e. Olivia Newton John is one example. How about Sia? I could rattle off many other examples. Australia punches above it's weight for it's population size.
Better weather? Both US and Australia are massive continents with varying climates. It's not really possible to compare both so simply.

Australia has it's problems but I would rather be here than in the U.S. where life can be very precarious.