Worldwide Picks: What Non-Americans Love About Life in the USA

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Office Depot Dreams

That services just work.

Living in a third-world country makes you sad when you compare the efficiency of the services available in your country with those of first-world countries such as the United States or Canada. The fact of being able to do almost everything over the Internet without having to go to a stupid government office to wait hours because of the inefficiency of the people who work there is just… horrible. Being able to have access to credit with a social security number is another thing that I admire. In my country, you need to go through an odyssey to be able to get access to credit.

Even stores, like Office Depot, in my country are crap. In the US, stores are able to have all the stock you can imagine, regardless of whether things are sold or not. Here, I have to settle for what people buy the most and even improvise to be able to finish any project.

Has anyone here ever worked with an MDF or plywood board? … Well … Even those little things are hard to find in my country because the only ones who use them are the big companies. People here don’t even know what I’m talking about when trying to find things like those.

Also, money here is worth a crap… In the US, you can buy any tool in an emergency without making a huge hole in your pocket. In my country, even buying the crappiest brand of a product is expensive; I’m talking about jigsaws/drills/computers/smartphones/a ducking bed lol…

If I’m allowed to say this (not wanting to insult Americans), with my national perspective, average American daily problems seem to be so small… But I haven’t lived there to confirm that. I only know a few friends but nothing more than that. I wish someday I could contribute to your society, guys… I envy you in a positive way.