What are the coolest aspects about living in USA?

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  3. Super diverse cultures and geography.

    Really don’t need to leave the country for whatever type of outdoor adventure I want, which is probably the most typical kind of traveling we do as a culture.

  4. The fact that in some places you can get Chinese food made by a Vietnamese family running a business in a building owned by a Bangladeshi landlord delivered to you by Nigerian Uber driver at 2 in the morning.

  7. You can travel 3000 miles across the US and you only need to know English for the entire trip.

  8. Make lots of money at a reasonably low tax rate

    Definitely the most diverse single country to live in. Hawaii, Alaska, Florida, New York, Colorado, etc.

    People are friendly and racism is taboo

    Great weather in most places

    Easy to assimilate for immigrants

  10. Abundance. Every major city has just about every kind of food imaginable and 37 kinds of ketchup on the supermarket shelves–and, more abstractly, wonders both natural and manmade in every corner of the country. There are precious few things that can be found outside the United States that can’t be found in some form inside it, the notable exceptions being old-world cityscapes and ancient sites. It’s just really, really big in every sense.

  11. Our genres of music, movies, games, media (double edge sword) diversity, dances, variety of choices, creativity, openness, our different types of beautiful landscapes and animals, our weirdness, cultural memes and references/jokes. How we don’t have follow what everyone else does. We do our own thing.
    Innovation. Flexibility.

  13. Unparalleled variety in almost every way imaginable. Sometimes freedom comes down to being able to snowboard and surf and choose between 15 different flavors of Oreos all in one day.

  14. The amount of exotic vegetables and ingredients that are readily available.

  15. The fact that you’re living in the most powerful country in human history. It really puts things into perspective

  16. I can drive to the ocean, the mountains, the desert, and another 3000 miles to a different ocean.. all without needing my passport or speaking another language.

  18. You want desert? We got it.

    Beaches? Mountains? Forests? Glaciers? Cities? Got those too.

    We have a bit of everything. All under 1 language and one currency.

  20. You.could get tear gassed but you won’t disappear for participating in social protests

  21. Other answers like diversity are great so I’ll add something else.

    Everything is made to be so fucking convenient. Like have x amount of time to get food where x is at least 1 minute? You can find a place to grab food and eat it in a minute. Want to order something online in the morning at work and have it sent to your house by the time lunch rolls around? Probably can, if not probably by the time you get home from work. Have a weird shift in your job? You can find a gym where you can work out 24 hours a day in most cities. Have a hardware emergency at 2 am? Can probably find a 24 hour Walmart within driving distance from where you’re at. Run out of beer at 11 pm? Can go to a store up the street and get more.

    I loved living in Europe for 5 years and I’m sure a lot has changed since 2004. But I just remember it being painfully inconvenient at times compared to living in the states. Everything closed early, fast food was the only option that didn’t take forever.

    Europe is my only experience living out of the states and it was so so charming, but the double edged sword was that so much was really not nearly as convenient as the US.

  22. The first thing that came to mind is being a kid sitting in a field with hundreds/thousands of other people, wearing your glow sticks that you just bought from the glow stick guy, and waiting for the sun to set so the fireworks can start.

    And then, after sunset, feeling alone in a sea of darkness and glow sticks until each firework illuminates the people around you. And they all look so happy.

    (I really liked 4th of July as a kid. And glow sticks.)

  24. 1. You can taste 100 different cuisines and hear 30 different languages spoken in any major or even medium sized city

    2. The accessibility. Despite how spread out and distant everything is, it’s all very easy to access

    3. The natural beauty of this continent is jaw dropping. Whatever you can think of, we’ve a world version of it

    4. For all the flak we get, our sports culture is the most civil in the entire world. The insane racism and pitch invasions and neo Nazi propaganda just doesn’t happen in the NBA, NFL, MLS, MLB, or NHL.

  27. Diverse and beautiful landscape for 3 thousand miles without needing a passport or to learn a new language. There’s something for everyone

  28. For me it’s the ethnic/cultural diversity. Demographically, nearly every nation of origin Earth is represented here with a significant by a significant number of people. Very few countries outside of the US are the same. Despite our sad colonial past (tbf, it was the British), our country is only what it is today because of immigration. We’re a nation of immigrants and I think it’s awesome that anyone from anywhere can be an American when they come here.

  31. Convenience and the availability of everything. The USA is the cheapest shopping place for quality items in the Western World. We are better at business than anywhere else.

  32. I like that I can travel from rainforest and deserts to frozen wastelands without ever leaving the country. I like that we have pretty low taxes because at my income level in a lot of countries taxes would be terrible, and I like that Entrepreneurship is encouraged. I like the diversity of food and music.

  33. Wide open spaces. Abundance. Best cars in the world. Highly creative and productive people who know no limits.

  34. I can call my boss by his first name while talking to him in person and no one thinks that’s weird or inappropriate.

    We have some excellent state and county parks.

    We have hummingbirds.

  35. every type of climate and topography possible, almost. i’m in the pacific northwest, and in my state half of it is very dry and rural, dead grass and rolling hills and farms, and then the other half after a mountain pass is all mountains and lakes and the coast with the pacific ocean. i love that there are forests and rivers, lakes and mountains, and the step below a dessert all within a couple hours drive.

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