u/Winter_Ad1973

Now that I'm watching Thai dramas, those actors could easily pass for Chinese or Korean and no one would notice. I'm not saying it's wrong, just that it's strange knowing that this group is a minority there.

Quality of life indicators basically boil down to four things: safety, health, infrastructure, and education. In safety, China is clearly far ahead of the US. You can even leave your wallet on the ground or your laptop in the street and no one will take it. Something like that happening in the US would be a miracle. What greater freedom is there than living without fear, being able to walk the streets at any hour without anything bad happening to you?

In health, China has a higher life expectancy and a lower obesity rate, so it's also better in this area. China is also clearly better in infrastructure; just travel to Shanghai and New York and see it firsthand, compare the subways, technology, street cleanliness... China also ranks higher in the Gini index, which measures inequality. Where they might be more or less on par is in education, but even there, China has a higher IQ. Even in mental health, analyzing depression rates and suicide rates, China fares better. The only argument they have to say the USA is more developed is GDP per capita, an indicator biased by inequality and the prices of goods and services, which are different in every country you go to. What good is a higher GDP per capita if, in the end, safety, health, and infrastructure are worse? And the HDI, which only focuses on three superficial aspects, doesn't provide a general analysis like the one mentioned above. I'm open to opinions, but they have to be well-founded, not the classic migration argument when it's well known that there are many American migrants in Mexico and the Philippines, and that doesn't mean they're going to say that life is better in those countries than in the US, right? lol. Also, the percentage of Americans who migrate to another country is much higher than the percentage of Chinese doing the same, according to official data.