I’m not the parent commenter. But I’m Chinese and I can confidently say that living in the United States for your average citizen is far more comfortable than living in China.
You can say all you want about how unfair the US economy is to the average working-class citizen but at the end of the day, it’s still a high-income country, and we have running water, electricity, unfiltered Internet access, good public sanitation, and reasonably-modern housing. There are some villages in China that I’ve been to with a total of six electric plugs, toilets that need to be flushed with a bucket, a barely-working 3G cellular connection, and where you can’t drive faster than 20 km/h without destroying your car.
Don’t take these things for granted, because you don’t know what it’s like to live without them.
There are some villages in China that I’ve been to with a total of six electric plugs, toilets that need to be flushed with a bucket, a barely-working 3G cellular connection, and where you can’t drive faster than 20 km/h without destroying your car.
Go on Baidu and look up 广州市麦地西街 (The one in 白云区, 梅花园 area)
Look at the street view (too laggy for me so I can’t screenshot it rn)
That’s the neighborhood I used to live… dirty af… urban hell lol… never had internet till my family emigrated… it was 2010 and I had no idea how to use the internet and my US-Born cousins treated me like some peasant lol
still? have you been anywhere else?
Yes. The U.S. is a very nice place to live compared to the majority of other places in the world.
I’m not the parent commenter. But I’m Chinese and I can confidently say that living in the United States for your average citizen is far more comfortable than living in China.
You can say all you want about how unfair the US economy is to the average working-class citizen but at the end of the day, it’s still a high-income country, and we have running water, electricity, unfiltered Internet access, good public sanitation, and reasonably-modern housing. There are some villages in China that I’ve been to with a total of six electric plugs, toilets that need to be flushed with a bucket, a barely-working 3G cellular connection, and where you can’t drive faster than 20 km/h without destroying your car.
Don’t take these things for granted, because you don’t know what it’s like to live without them.
I know this is going to sound bleak or dramatic, but I feel like the US is on a trajectory to a situation that is worse than what you describe.
I’ve spent time in this type of regional area in SE Asia, with very limited and rudimentary infrastructure.
It might be hyperbole to suggest that the US is becoming a dystopia, but it’s not hyperbole to list the multiple complex unsolvable problems.
Go on Baidu and look up 广州市麦地西街 (The one in 白云区, 梅花园 area)
Look at the street view (too laggy for me so I can’t screenshot it rn)
That’s the neighborhood I used to live… dirty af… urban hell lol… never had internet till my family emigrated… it was 2010 and I had no idea how to use the internet and my US-Born cousins treated me like some peasant lol