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Why would I rather live in Canada than in the USA?

I ask myself this all the time - after all, most of the Americans I know are pretty damned happy. Granted, most of the Canadians I know would much rather live in Canada - as, honestly, would I.

So I decided to write down why I think the US sucks.

The US sucks because nobody in the US actually stands up for it anymore.

They stand up for themselves, yes.

But not what their country is supposed to stand for.

The US is confusing as hell.

It`s all about freedom, as long as you don`t say or do anything that gives someone a reason to sue you. Then it`s about suing.

It`s all about innovation, except if you invent anything that comes in the same colour as something invented in the last 100 years, someone is going to sue you for patent violations.

It`s all about what you want, so long as it doesn`t offend anyone at all.

No.

And then there`s the politics...

the biggest difference between the two parties in the US is one is crooked, and the other is loopy. They both stand for essentially the same things, none of which they advertise to the people who vote for them.

A vote doesn`t mean anything in the US... it`s only an indicator of who the public wants to vote for, not what will happen after the election.

There is no winner or loser, only angry people who fail to understand that their vote was completely worthless.

I`d live in the US, but it wouldn`t be my first choice... it`s a nice place to visit, but there is nothing about it that would compel anyone who isn`t starving to death in a third world country to want to live there.