Hindsite wrote:The question is "Why don't you move to Cuba if you think it is so much better than the USA?"
Are you too lazy?
You asked this to Pants of Dog, a Canadian like myself.
Neither of us is moving to the USA, as far as I know. So Cuba being better than the USA by many metrics (with about 1/20th the consumption per capita) is incredible and admirable, but doesn't mean that either of us will move to Cuba from Canada to prove a point to you. Though I might move to Cuba sometime in my life, if the USA doesn't destroy it like it has so many other nations.
I have friends who've moved to the USA, and I have acquaintances who have moved to Cuba. I guarantee you that the people who moved to Cuba are less stressed out, farther from a nervous breakdown, and get better health care and have more free time off than those friends of mine who moved to high-paying jobs in California or New York.
Most Quebecois ex-pats in Cuba are married to Cubans and living in simple houses with very complete and intersting social lives and community participation. Most Canadian ex-pats in the USA accept high-paying intermediate jobs that require workaholism and no family or social life.
The Modern American experience is isolation and materialism. The absence of community is palpable and reduces life quality down to almost nil. This has gravely affected both Canada, and Latin America. Americans fool themselves into thinking their country is NOT a failure because it is so destructive (powerful) and important (racist against all other nations).