This was a very interesting thread to read. I never really looked at immigration from this perspective.
My two cents as a US citizen.
Yes, the US is a great option/better if:
1) You are already rich, or are
absolutely certain you can strike it rich (note: everyone thinks they can, few can actually ever actually achieve it).
2) You are ok with being discriminated against, either directly or indirectly. Unless you are male AND can easily pass of as White.
3) You are ok with
others around you being discriminated against, directly or indirectly.
4) You are ok with a lot of folks around you being extremely religious, and think evangelicals are perfectly rational/sane/normal.
5) You are ok living in a society/culture that values $$ much more than people.
6) You love guns and think folk should be able to openly carry their guns everywhere (i.e. grocery store, church, Subway, school).
7) You are capable of eventually become numb to the constant mass shootings (
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/mass-shootings-in-america/).
8) It's your only available choice for immigration.
9) You truly believe America is the end-all, be-all for what the rest of the World should be like, and needs no changes. Most Americans think this way.
Otherwise, it's not all it's cracked up to be. Among other things, the social safety net here is non-existent. What that means is that if something happens and you fall on bad times, you will have nothing to cushion that blow. Also, the conservative party here in the US is truly a conservative party. Most folks don't realize just how far right they really are. What little social safety net there is, it is their life's mission to utterly destroy it. A lot of them share Ayn Rand's dystopian, anti-government philosophy, and her "morality of selfishness".
There is a reason social/economic mobility in the US has declined so horribly in the past few decades. Most other countries have
much better social/economic mobility.
