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Non-American here!

I’ve visited America a bunch of times and I really like it as a place, they have amazing scenery pretty much everywhere you look, and just about every individual American I’ve met has been really nice.

BUT…

I’d never want to live there. Their healthcare system is insane (sorry Americans but it is) and politically as a nation they’re pretty bonkers. Guns, religion, general sort of global belligerence etc.

Also as an aside, San Francisco is genuinely one of the strangest places I’ve ever been to. I dunno if I was just there at a weird time, but it seemed like every single person there was either a millionaire or homeless. Absolutely nothing in between.

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Their healthcare system is insane (sorry Americans but it is)

Don’t apologize! If anything that’s an understatement. And everything else you said is on point too.

Source: Am American.

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Ask any San Franciscan and they’ll tell you that’s just San Francisco.

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Work takes me to Houston from time to time, and I wholeheartedly agree. I would never want to live there.

It seems that whenever you find something likeable about the place, it turns out to be a product of a predatory system.

I seriously hope the workers at T.J. Birria Y Mas down in Missouri City are well paid and cared for (I doubt it), because they’re doing an awesome job and it’s hard not to love that place.

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Oh nobody likes the healthcare system except the people profiting from it and the people who think billionaires will love them and share if they sing their praises enough.

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