I live at home and am gonna get a job. Despite our President here, life so far is OK for me. However, I do wanna see the world and at least travel to Japan, Norway, Sweden, or the Netherlands
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Denmark is amazing. Especially in spring, when the beech trees sprout leaves in the most delicate green color.
Things just work here, food is good, the music scene is great, government is highly trustworthy, lots of jobs, lots of welfare. Yes, it could be better still, but I don’t know many places where it works nearly as well as here.
I live in the a quiet rural part of the US and I love it here. But Denmark is the ONLY place that I’m kinda jealous of. I’d love to live there. I always just hear and see good things about it.
Norway: Pretty chill, at least in my corner of the country; squeezed in between three mountains and a fjord.
My biggest concern these days is that I was supposed to go down to Saudi Arabia for some work stuff, but that’s been put on hold due to… stuff you may have heard of…
The news cycle is kind of repetitive because of a douchebag who is related to royalty is on trial. Nobody cares, lock him up if he’s found guilty, that’s all. I guess it’s a sign that there’s not much newsworthy happening.
On a more personal level, I’m waiting for my meshtastic radios to arrive so I can put up some routers on nearby summits and see if I can reach the next tiny town over. No reason other than toying around with it, really.
With geology like this, I have no idea how they manage to supply gigabit internet to my house. But I guess once you’re used to digging tunnels for basic infrastructure, running a fiber isn’t that big of a deal. My basement homelab enjoys the results either way.
Day-to-day life isn’t exciting. But it’s safe and secure; the good kind of boring.
God, I wish life could go back to boring in the USA.
USA is a big place and most of it is quiet, safe, and boring. I live here, and life is very boring and quiet. Which I like.
America is great if you are rich, but even our rich people are very unhappy that they aren’t richer, which is annoying and basically what drives all our problems.
I am in the top 15% in my country, and I see it all around me among my peers. People with tons of money and success who are just deeply unhappy they they don’t have more of it. And if you claim you are happy with what you have in life, people hate you for it.
The culture in America certainly seems very, very focused on money.
But all a person really needs to be happy is somewhere nice to live, money for food and good friends.
Some people need to get cancer to understand what is important in life.
That’s because having tons of money is the only proven way to not have a crappy life in the USA. All the public services and citizen protections are undergoing rapid disassembly, without which one wrong move can put you on the street.
I don’t have tons of money and I grew up with even less and my life is great dude.
You don’t need tons of money. What you need is to be smart with your money and way too many people aren’t. You don’t need a Lexus to be happy, but way too many Americans think if you don’t have a stupidly expensive car, you must be miserable.
I don’t have tons of money and I grew up with even less and my life is great dude.
Same! The doomscrollers on Lemmy seem to enjoy being unhappy and have no clue how life is for most people. lol
I don’t have any money and I have a great life. And I live in the US. All my neighbors seem pretty happy too.
America is great if you are rich,
Every country is great if you are rich, though. Also, I’m very poor, live in the US, and I’m pretty darn happy. Lemmy is definitely not even close to having the same attitude as most of the US. lol
The doomscrollers here on Lemmy are crazy. lol
That’s interesting to me, as I’d always assumed that if you were poor in the US you were kinda screwed. I’m in Scotland where it’s basically impossible to be homeless unless you choose it, and if you’re sick you’ll get treated by the NHS. It still sucks to be poor here.
Social services differ drastically from state to state. It’s possible to be happy and poor in a state run by the democrats. Probably not in a state run by republicans.
Honestly I don’t know why people call this a country when basic shit isn’t the same anywhere.
Social services differ drastically from state to state. It’s possible to be happy and poor in a state run by the democrats. Probably not in a state run by republicans.
Depends on the state. I grew up in republican states (tho I’m not republican) and I never had money. And I’m happy and fine.
I’d be happier and finer with more money tho! But that’s true anywhere in the world.
That’s interesting to me, as I’d always assumed that if you were poor in the US you were kinda screwed.
The US is huge in a way most people outside don’t fully grasp.
Lemmy pushes a lot of negativity, but let’s put the numbers in perspective. Lemmy has about 1.366 million registered users worldwide (with monthly active users way lower, around 48,000–50,000). That’s less than 0.0004% of the US population of roughly 343 million. And the portion actually from and living in the US is even smaller. On big instances like lemmy.world, only about 36% of traffic comes from the United States, with the rest scattered across Europe, the UK, and elsewhere.
So the voices you see are a tiny, often city-heavy or niche slice that doesn’t reflect most Americans at all.
The country covers about 3.8 million square miles (nearly 9.8 million square kilometers). With 343 million people spread across that, most of the land is quiet, rural, and empty. News almost always comes from 10–15 big cities where drama happens and gets amplified.
You rarely hear about the rest because… there’s nothing dramatic to report.
I didn’t see a homeless person in real life until I was 27 and moved to a big California city. I hated California and moved to different state just 3 years later.
Just last week I drove 16 hours through Kansas; 12 of those hours were straight fields of grass and corn, with a solid 5-hour stretch seeing zero people or cars.
I stopped in a town of about 500 people: doors unlocked, bikes left on porches, everyone friendly, and the big topic was the weather. That’s normal in huge swaths of the US. But you won’t hear that because it’s boring and “boring” doesn’t get clicks.
Social sites like Lemmy and Reddit are full of urban posters. How often do you see someone post, “I live in a town of 200 people, went fishing, then came back and watched the high school football game, shared homemade food with everyone, had a great time, then came back to the house with my wife and watched NCIS on Netflix!”?
Guess what? That’s my reality. And the reality of about 70 million people in the US. Not very interesting news though.
The quiet, safe majority just isn’t loud online or in the news.
