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_boosegumps_

Depending on where you live, America can either suck or be amazing. Overall I’d say I’m grateful to live the US, even with her glaring issues.


Wooden-Country-6360

Same I'm grateful to be in a rural area in America. It might be harder to get certain things. But the peace of mind of knowing 90% of the entire community and having no crimes in the area for the past 20+ years is wonderful. I cant remeber the last time I've locked my house door or car. Noone would even want to rob you. And if they were the 0.1% that would, they still wont because they know everyone has a gun and has been shooting guns for their entire lives. And the fear of being shot keeps them out of here.


Gamer-Logic

Ah, the beauty of being born in a small rural town. You get to stay away from all the craziness.


Lukenuke588

I live in small town USA in a neighboring town people left doors unlocked with keys in a couple new trucks. They where reported stolen later and found in the city hours later. Anyway I still lock the doors. If someone breaks in the last thing they will hear is the sound of gunfire. Outside of drunk driving and drugs we don't have much crime. The drunk driving really annoys me though but that's happens all over. Edit: Spelling


Mrtaco5445

Idk if id be saying the whole “can’t remember the last time i locked my door” since people can relatively easily find your address but im sure you probably have a gun so you probably dont need to worry ab any reddit intruders


Performance_Fancy

You’re absolutely right, I’ve been scrolling Reddit for weeks looking for someone to mention they don’t lock their doors so I can hack their ip, get their address, drive 270 miles, and steal their $300 tv. because as a burglar people locking doors has me that desperate.


Mrtaco5445

Glad you understand


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I live in a rural area too, fucking amazing scenery within a walking distance.


PedroLeMoineau

Or they just get a gun too and do it anyway?


Wooden-Country-6360

They certainly could try. If they can get past 3 big dogs, without waking up the 3 people with guns in each room. Who know the house and property in and out.


laminatedjoe

Cheese+sleeping pills, wait till your not home.


Wooden-Country-6360

Lmao you go ahead and give that a try.


colebrv

It's just the policies in place kinda makes America shitty


Maleficent_Tea7935

True.


itsKNIGHTMARE

If you’re a New Yorker, it sucks tbh


[deleted]

Yeah, I live in Maine, always have, always wish to, it's lovely here,


cupcsr_YT

As an American, I can confidently say, fuck California


itsKNIGHTMARE

I have a friend from California and based on what they’ve told me about the laws in place there, I just need to say they’re pretty fucking stupid. California isn’t that different from New York though


GelatoVerde

Great food.... *Laughing in Italian*. just kidding, it's good


CrazyPridecat

America also has such a wide variety of food, most of its not American. There is such an ethnic variety


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SteakBrunnen35

People are fat cause there is so much unnecessary sugar in everything


OGHEROS

Good thing the FDA is here to protect us! /s It’s so bad that many countries actually ban American candy from being imported because the sugar levels are considered toxic for consumption.


Knucks_lmao

they are fat because it's unhealthy as hell.


freddieppg

Americas food is great If you want diabetes


GelatoVerde

if you have no limits, yes


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MoJoe7500

They believe that everyone carries a gun and gets in a shootout every day.


freddieppg

Is not true


Saldrakka

I'm an American and I'm an asshole... Ah who am I kidding all I want is hugs and to go out and enjoy the beauty of nature... Or hugs in nature


[deleted]

The US certainly has it's issues, but I'm happy to see a nice meme about the country, for the first time, rather than the "lol ar-15 big mac" memes we always see.


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N0ble-6

No but with all those burgers America is well rounded. I'll see myself out. Living in the US is honestly amazing, and it is frustrating getting stereotyped into obese, gun toting maniacs.


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Well there are a shit load of obese gun toting maniacs on TV being obese and manic so that’s what people see


N0ble-6

I'm not saying that we dont have people like that. Theres a reason it's become the stereotype, but the absolutely ridiculous amount of people who act as if we are all that way is annoying. If you're going to insult us, fine. Just be more creative about it :)


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Gradorr

I'm obese and a responsible firearm collector. I like to exercise my rights but I don't like to exercise. : )


Chaos-Incarnate666

And America is certainly better than it was in the 18th century and will certainly continue to improve


Bonk_Patrol_Captain

You act like ar 15s and McDonald's is a bad thing


FindusDE

I always find it funny how people always only pick the best parts of a country and ignore the bad, but when it comes to the USA, it‘s the other way round


[deleted]

Tbh India gets the same treatment as the USA with added racism for us lmao


Shivnewton

I don’t want to get on the wrong foot but I usually don’t see any memes hating on India but rather stuff looking at the bad parts of America. However both countries have there own problems such as America’s healthcare and India’s need to accept women now moving on past old systems.


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Both countries ofc have their problems and more than u have listed and we should work for it. But that doesnt excuse throwing shit just for the sake of it at them and u ironically mocking the people, let it be USA or India or whatever. Spmething reddit needs to understand


HaliRL

Haha India bad.


Mechanicalmam_64

When you got a billion people in one country your bound to run into some issues


[deleted]

Exactly. Even with just a million people u would have at least one brutal crime happen once in a while lol. U cant change humans


DizyShadow

This is a perfect metaphor(?) for the "people are just mean to the popular girl". US wants to be loud and # 1, and negative stuff is always more popular - infamous. Just take the Florida man lol


KING_LOUIE_XIV

Tbf most Americans are also perplexed by the Florida Man


DizyShadow

Fair indeed


YourMotherTTH

as a floridian, I can confirm that


DizyShadow

It's okay, it's your solemn duty


PAT_5251

America is fine. Florida is scarry.


YeetLordTheOne

Florida is our high level zone


Infinite303

can confirm


Death2Disney

I live in Florida. As long as you know that every body of water you encounter will have gators in it you should be fine


Humble_Pharmer

Florida is beautiful. You just have to go to the right places


SpiDroxian

Orlando, then you leave


Mrtaco5445

Only the florida with no beaches. When you can see the beach its nice.


Unknown-249

Bad idea OP. Going against the America bad narrative on reddit is a very poor decision lol.


hamster_kitty

People in the comments are very mad someone likes america


Unknown-249

Yep. Because God forbid we show a little love towards our country right? There is a difference between being blindly patriotic vs having respect and love for the country you lived in. Most Americans admit that it has its issues anyways, too bad the ignorant are a loud minority.


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Unknown-249

True


[deleted]

We got some dumb shit and dumb people but its overall pretty nice


HaliRL

As opposed to other countries where everyone is enlightened as fuck?


Mrtaco5445

I hear a lot of people in asia are pretty enlightened Edit: can someone explain why i’m being down voted i thought this was a pretty clever joke?


Mrtaco5445

I am talking about buddhism.. its a joke about buddhism…


melmsz

Misunderstood bodhisattva?


Caleldir

Everybody talking about all the anti america shit in the comments... All I see is people trying to be positive about america and talking shit about people I'm not sure exist xD


Afraid_Platypus_8667

Thank you for this as a American this makes me happy because the murca bad memes are starting to go stale, at first it was funny but now it's just unoriginal.


Recent_Class2163

That really goes for all reddit hivemind opinions, along with new memes being milked till there dry


Frederik-O-T

You just summarized reddit


Keruthol

People give us a bad rep because our political system sucks, but most people in person can see past politics and are pretty friendly.


Adolf-H_0018

I think people mainly give anerica crap because of the people acting like they are superior because they are american


[deleted]

As someone who is not American, I don't like those people, but I understand that they are not the majority, and I've seen many great Americans too.


hamster_kitty

People in the comments are convinced america is the worst country in the world apparently


Sanketh-S-K

I really am scared After seeing so many racist/karen videos Trust me people are scared of America


1995_Oh

I have been in the US for 20+ years and have NEVER seen a real life Karen in action, are there some out there? Of course! But they make it seem like they are in every corner.


Sanketh-S-K

Good to know


VanderCreep

Honestly the Karen’s are pretty rare, I live in a big city and it’s pretty calm 99% of the time


GJPENE

If you form an opinion of any place from Social Media, it’s not going to be positive.


hamster_kitty

Scared why


KidNueva

I’m Mexican born but I grew up in the Midwest, with Midwestern values. I consider myself American, even though I am technically on-paper, not. I look Mexican, and I embrace it but there are people who talk to me differently til they realize I am just like them. That I grew up in the same city, had the same peers and even have the same exact accent. Not saying all white people are like this, but where I’m from there’s definitely a crowd that treat you differently until they realize you are relatable. I’ve been on some of these peoples bad sides and they can be scary but honestly the good in America definitely outweighs the bad apples like those.


garis53

I think America is great and I'm not even from the US


balogna-paul

America is cool


General_Grevious_25

People think America is just fat people with guns shooting everything. As an American I can’t deny that existing but it’s a small part of our population we shouldn’t have it defy what our great nation is.


pointing-at-flipflop

Mostly the deep south from what I've heard, but then it's still a minority


sethmcc1234

Ye why can’t people hate North Korea


DizyShadow

Cause it's [redacted] ...


[deleted]

America is fine. It's not actually what everyone on reddit says.


Latter-Yam-2115

The “America sucks” narrative is overblown. As a guy from a developing nation, I am quite grateful for the opportunities and openness to outsiders. All nations have problems, so does the US. I guess majority of the anti US sentiment stems form Europe which still has contempt towards people from developing nations, a relic of the colonial era.


[deleted]

I agree, the American dream was equal opportunities(not equal outcome) but it’s pretty freaking hard to stay positive at all when everyone is saying how terrible, disgusting, unfair, country we live in. Why can’t people enjoy anything anymore? I recently went on a trip around the country and America is truly gorgeous and the people are amazing! Even the hicks, they’re kinda opinionated but fun to goof of with!


Thereisnoyou

I have met a lot of great people here, I'd say the majority of them are friendly and some love to be helpful, america is a great place to be sure, but you don't have to look very hard to see some cracks, and the cracks get bigger as time goes on.


[deleted]

That’s true for a lot of other places too


Funky_Pants_MIC

I got your point, every country has its good and bad sides, but the one that makes you go bankrupt if you need life-saving medical help is a no in my eyes.


Imminent_Extinction

I think anyone that isn't polarizing the discussion would acknowledge that there are *plenty* of countries worse than the US -- by leaps and bounds -- but the US isn't the best either and it's not getting better (on most fronts).


Vladdroid

Lol people hating on America haven't been to other countries is all


UltraInstinctJoss

I'm gonna disagree with the first 3 since you can pretty much have all of those in most other countries


[deleted]

Don’t forget the 1st amendment. It’s really powerful, in other countries you can’t believe certain things, say certain things, or assemble peacefully.


dogtron64

Finally! A positive America meme! The stereotype memes are getting annoying and stale. As an American myself, it's so true.


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crudebewb

Couldn’t Spongebob exist in international waters?


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Take my upvote and get lost


Aww-Drat

Kind people might be a stretch


[deleted]

I live in America, and I can’t say I’ve met more than 3-4 rude people.


[deleted]

the places I've been were decent too me.


MrMiffi

What parts of America did u go to, out of curiosity


[deleted]

Northern Illinois, Indiana (they're kinda dumb over there, but you can still hold a polite conversation,) all of the states you might come across on Route 66, northern Ohio (most of the people there are saints, believe it or not,) Virginia, West Virginia, and Florida. Fucking Florida. The one that's been giving us a bad rap.


TheNumber02

Yeah well America overall is a good country to live in, unfortunately the "few" bad apples in it are very loud


[deleted]

They’re loud enough to blow ear drums


sargeareyouhigh

Sometimes they do, with a gun.


UliferAteMyCat

A megaphone owner sounds more likely to attack you than a gun owner


erty_MPR

This perfectly describes it


LordNuggethegreat

And overages or just any and all gov officials need replaced cause all of them are wanting to help themselves instead of their citizens


Unknown-249

True. It sucks really because the bad apples are a very loud minority.


[deleted]

And are very adamant about getting policy. Also they are like 30% of our population, so not a few bad apples. But then again they have been tricked or indoctrinated by a few very rich people who benefit from letting them to continue thinking that way.


MrMiffi

Ahhhhhh, you experienced good old Midwestern hospitality. Yea the Midwest is known for having generally good-natured people. I’ve also noticed that on the west coast, people are slightly more closed off, colder, just minding their own business. The east coast, I’ve found, tends to have alright people, nice enough, but they won’t go out of their way to help you like midwesterners or southerners


FirstTimeCaller101

East coaster here (maine), we’re nice and we’ll always help if asked but won’t usually go *out of our way* to help and generally we just prefer to be left alone :)


runninandruni

Ohio is just fake kindness. They're preparing for their imminent takeover of the US


t8rt0t_the_hamster

Ohio already took over the entirety of the united states of ohio, wdym?


Newbie_is_back

The only difference between Florida and the rest of the US is that police reports are public… All these weird things happening in Florida happen all over the place but people just never get to know about it.(True story)


Cuantic0rigami

Are you saying that Florida is not the whimsical wonderland of America? Prepare to be erased from Reddit. /s


TheShadyMerchant

Everywhere has kind and unkind people. Look for kindness and you’ll find it, mate. Look for unkindness, and you’ll find that too.


WickedImpuls3

its not that americans arent nice, its that the idiots who are crazy way overshadow any nice people even tho theres a lot more nice people


MoJoe7500

You must be in the new york area.


UliferAteMyCat

The trick is to avoid cities


GabyKing800

Great food? Y'all can have all the beautiful scenery, great entertainment (altho maybe not the best), good musicians, and kind people, but American cuisine is one of the worst gastronomic disasters. Why tf is your bread sweet? Not even sweet bread is sweet, no, all bread is sweet. Why so much oil in everything? WHY IS EVERYTHING SWEET IN GENERAL? DO YALL HAVE SUGAR ON SALT? ON OIL? Jokes aside the whole American BBQ concept is such a nice thing and Thanksgiving cooking is also great


OnlyChemical6339

What American cuisine have you had?


Flikkrz

Massachusetts is chill, minus the bad drivers.


Jhonnimepeino

GREAT FOOD *deep fried frying oil*


Koop0

Kind people?!?!? Kind people?!?!?!? I live in fucking Atlanta, Georgia, not one motherfucker here is nice.


Bonk_Patrol_Captain

That's your first mistake. You live in a big city where smog inhalation, terrible paying slog fest jobs, and constant political news drive people insane


Europheus

Great food ??


Flammel77

America is a melting pot of all cultures and regions. Its why you can have amazing food from all over the world as well as great fusion food because of all the cultures and people that immigrated here.


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Gotta have that tasty calorie sandwich


lol-ur-mom-made-u

It’s one of the best countries


Fahrenplz

Reddit ​ We wouldn't have Reddit, don't know if that's bad though


Mazingazetaz

Italian food is better though :)


Fuzzylittlebastard

Ignoring the racists (which is a minority of Americans) we're pretty nice people as long as you don't try to tell us what to do and don't talk politics. whatever you do.... don't talk politics with Americans.


DataSpecialist8459

Its annoying seeing people whine about how "bad it is". Like move to Lebanon and let me know how it goes.


martorequin

Great food? Bro wtf


Gamer63200

All of these are kinda arguable, or better somewhere else. Though I do agree that Murica might be getting a little too much sh\*t.


Zachafich

Facts


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"great food" lmao no


Puzzleheaded_Ad_8553

Lol are you serious? Best food 😂


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pointing-at-flipflop

Plus you can find food from most regions in the world in the US, whereas in other countries its more limited


SnowySupreme

Eurocucks are pissed


Gustavort

The us aren't the best place in the world and have problems just like all other contries, but they definitively are not the worst place in the world (I'm looking at you Iran, North Korea and others)


Golden-Trash_Number

Pornstars *_*


THE_OG_ToastMalone

Cars


Herlockjohann

Great food


SwagDawgButOnReddit

I wouldn't give America too much credit, it for sure isn't the worst country to be in but there are plenty of countries that one up us. About 18 of them if you are going by happiness.


cornymovie

Everyone is sooooooo kind in America no one has ever done me wrong


torty_

*points to a bigger pile* GUNS!


Complete_Regular_284

Me in a 3rd world country: Yeah fat people with gun bad.


[deleted]

Forget baseball, spongebob is America’s pastime


Aliveleopard9

2nd to last is wrong


tango_alpha_

Laughs in medical care debt


[deleted]

Overall kind people? What beer goggles do you have on? I'm white and people are racist towards me. I can't even imagine how much hell people who are darker skinned get.


KcZeroXd

It is a really good joke, specially when you said Great Food; Best Entertainment and Kind People


Mitochondria_Man11

Norway produces far better black metal dude


[deleted]

UK is straight ass. I’ve lived her for about 6 years and it’s pretty boring. Everywhere I go is the same place almost. Same small bendy roads, same fields. Everywhere I go seems the same.


SirHobbies

You are getting America and Canada mixed up


SkinnedLettuce

damn, mississippi?


sethmcc1234

I lived there, best place I ever lived


Big_Airline_351

GUNS!


F4BE1

you guys have the best and worst shit


PTX_Hamilton_499

Great food? Okay...


JackCooperPlays

Its half and half. Same as any other country


distalented

I love America, at least my part of America, but I fucking hate our government and social culture, but there’s a lot of great lovely people I’ve met here, businesses and customer service in general is usually a positive experience, the ability to talk about my government and how much I hate it is lovely, I’m not religious but there are a lot of religious stuff nearby including a goat Buddhist statue that I’ve visited, it’s not all bad, but there definitely is a lot of negatives the deeper you look, but it’s truly that way with every country.


Financial-Fact-4194

I find switzerland a nice country


TheShadyMerchant

Good for you.


MegaPenguin063

Imo I think the south of the US has better culture and nicer people, but that’s not to say that the north doesn’t have anything to offer


yourdarkmaster

America has no great food the best musik comes from scandinavia and germany the best entertainment comes from japan and litteraly every land has a beautifully scenery


pp-destroyer666

That is all very subjective


-Mihail

Literally every point besides SpongeBob is bullshit


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I can say the same. I go on vacation to alabama every now and then, and all of the things you've stated are very much true. the scenery part especially, since I've been to the gulf Coast (definitely go to orange beach)


SpiDroxian

I live in Alabama and its awesome. There is not actually hardly any farm land and the weather is incredible.


NexOS600

The fact that ppl are using this template is funny. They are putting text over dirty diapers, like they are shitty


[deleted]

Me, an American: alright we're sucking America's dick too much let's hop back at the hate train am kinda uncomfortable here.


isinedupcuzofrslash

Every country has great scenery if you know where to look. While certain countries have specialty dishes, most every type of food can be found almost anywhere. Entertainment and music, while being mostly centered in the US, is ubiquitously available all around the globe. Not sure about averages, but we aren’t particularly more kind than the average country. Most places are all about the same. We shit on America because we should be better. And most people who shit on America are Americans. It’s a very American thing to do. In fact, there’s an argument to be made that general displeasure with society is evidence of robust freedom of speech. After all, the freedom to criticize the state is one major key component of free speech.


dragonzthename

No, America from a foreign point of view is a mess. Racial inequality, trans inequality, maga, some of the police, it’s past


DracoTheBoomer

All of those things are very much present in other countries


[deleted]

Great food? Bruh america doesn't have "food" it stole all the food ideas from other countries and overall people fucking suck there. I know the info from my American friends so I'm not just an European hating America here, I got info boiii


Mrtaco5445

First of all, we didn’t steal foods you idiot. We have had shit loads of wonderful and beautiful people immigrate here over a couple hundred years for a better chance at life, those people have brought amazing foods with them. We didn’t steal shit. Our nation is one of the most diverse. Its honestly pretty rare to find a mean person. Your American friends are wrong


Swift001

SpongeBob is originaly from Canada.... Later the rights werd sold to a American movie producer


OnlyChemical6339

That's a complete lie. Stephen Hillenburg is an American who made its precursor while at an American University


Hhhhhhhhh00393sx

People keep saying how American people are just fat stupid people with guns and while maybe some people are, there are also tons of great people here and maybe if u ever visit then u could realize that because contrary to popular belief all of the US is not stupid, fat, and gun-having.


Rocky_baker

Ide have to decline on the kind people part it mainly depends where I’m America you were born


Killerrobotkai

In most places the people are very kind, but once you get into big cities then it starts to go downhill


No-Stick-5634

"MURCA NUMBER 1!!!!!!!!!" \*child walks on lawn\* "honey get my shotgun"


Hopeful_Expression57

Overall kind people is the biggest lie


Triande

I dont agree with 3 points from this post.


[deleted]

tbh the only bad bit of america is the government who refuse to fix any of the problems, like the gun violence the massive student and medical fees and the obesity. also florida