30 Things The US Does Better Than Most Countries

Seconded!

as a PNW resident, I couldn't agree more!

It is exhausting to see how much US bashing happens on this site. I'm far from a patriotic person, but it's really uncomfortable to constantly have people from other countries just trash everything about the US. And it happens on almost every post. Haters gonna hate.

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Well, it *was* a negativity free post, thanks for fixing that for us. So- care to add any of these other reasons people want to live here?

OP never said they didn't, she just said she likes the US rest areas better.

yeh but US has TONS of them + they are absolutely gorgeous, with good finance behind them.

Yes, but they actually have decent money spent on them - Bill Bryson was appalled at how poorly UK parks were financed!

IIRC it was the US where the idea itself was invented, or first implemented.

And the US charges entry to get into a good portion of them too...never saw that anywhere else I've travelled.

US does it better

We know, but us does it better. Europe might be good, but america has better national parks

Do they have the sheer variety and number of ecosystems that our National (and State Parks) have? The point being made is that you can visit glaciers, canyon lands, fjords, caverns, ancient redwoods and sequioas, wetlands, deserts, geothermic phenomena , etc all in the same country. Our parks are one of the things I'm most proud, and in awe of, the US.

it's a "best of" list not an "only we have" list tho?

Not all of them and most started with the USA placing a grand rule, that you couldn't build of really much of recreate big a*s parties.

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That´s true

Yeah but compared to the parks in Europe for example

Canada has 342456 sq km of national parks and about 183000 sq km of provincial parks

Australia has 350,000 km2 of national parks.

That's part of it, too, though. You can just tell them you don't want to talk, and they'll leave you alone.

If you’re lost and need directions you can ask almost anyone and they will go out of their way to make sure you get to the right place.

Did you miss the part when when they said "you can literally talk to anyone you met in the street". You would have to initiate. If you don wanna, don't.

Based on all your comments, you seem like such a joy

Yeah, but living in LA, I kinda got used to giving random people directions. "Universal Studios? Nah, man, you gotta go up that street to get back on the freeway, then get off at the next exit. Yeah, that was Jay Leno ahead of you, but he's going to the production side."

Same. It's ingrained in us though. Not being chatty or sociable is seen as unkind or wrong from as early as elementary school, and can be penalized (or at least given s**t over) in many jobs. So now, even if I don't know someone, I instinctually smile and chat.

no one is forcing you to do it. you do you

for directions and necesary stuff, rarely for just the sake of talking

if you dont start the conversation, they wont bother you

Then don’t come here.

I am iliterally brusting in tirs

Is that a question?

I'll leave you alone. But won't look at you like your crazy for complaining that your in the same line. 😊

Yes, as a repeat visitor to both places I agree with you.

In Latinoamerica you can be friends with strangers in the most dramatic and absurd situations!

Try Corn Syrup on your pancakes sometime. Or even look at the ingredients on maple-flavored syrup.

Or maybe corn chips

It’s corntastic!

IT HAS THE JUICE!!

Except for their Coke. It has no corn syrup. Just good old sugar.

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