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The US is a large country with poor and rich areas. Older airports will be dirtier than newer airports. Generally public transit will be worse as most people dr

• adventured 9y ago
  Per capita GDP is considerably higher for the US than everywhere in Europe except for a few small nations. Norway and Switzerland primarily. It closed out 2017 near $59,000 for the US. That's nearly 70% higher than the European Union's GDP per capita. Germany is around $42,000. Austria $44,000. Finland $43,000. Netherlands $45,000. Belgium $41,000. UK $40,000. France $38,000. Italy $30,000. Spain $26,000. Denmark and Sweden get the closest otherwise at $54k and $51k. To put it into further perspective, France, Italy, Belgium, the UK would be among the poorest US states on a GDP per capita level, comparable to West Virginia and Arkansas. The US problem is allocation of resources. $200+ billion should be chopped right off of the military budget and redirected to infrastructure. Another $100 billion could be redirected for infrastructure by altering war on drugs / policing policies. $300+ billion extra per year into US infrastructure would result in the US having among the best infrastructure on the planet.
  • harigov 9y ago
    To put it in another perspective, US is so inefficient in using resources that they spend relatively more amount of money to get an almost equivalent or in someways inferior quality of life.
  • maxxxxx 9y ago
    The health system is probably several hundred billion more of wasted economic effort.