I spent 17 years overseas, working and living in Europe, Asia, South America, Canada, Russia, ME and never failed to get down on all fours, when I returned to America, and kiss the ground/tarmac/whatever.
The rest of the world is an undulating hellhole, sewer and rampant disease-fest, as compared to America, IMO.
Personally, I prefer Des Moines over Toledo.
Wow.
I am humbled in the face of that remarkable comeback.
Lol. :)
Kissing the tarmac upon returning home? Well, I love America just as much as the next guy, but doesn't that sort of classify the entire world as an unliveable hellhole? C'mon, I've been to Ireland, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Iceland, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. All of those countries have high standards of living. They are hardly starving and living in filth.
I've also been to Guatemala, the Philippines, China, Mongolia, India and Pakistan, and, yes, I can understand why you would appreciate America after seeing the poverty in which millions of the inhabitants of those countries live.
The whole world except for America is not Third World. Reminds me of the "Simpsons" episode where a man tells Lisa that in other countries, people eat bugs and sleep on the floor. Lisa asks him specifically which country/countries, and he replies, "Norway."
America is a great nation and we have much to be proud of, but so do inhabitants of other fine nations, i.e., Ireland, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, for example. If you start talking about the starvation, political tyranny and unhygienic conditions endured by Australians, you'll get laughed out of the room.
Best Regards,
P.M.