Totally agree, I'm from the States but the last few years I've been living in Europe but right now I'm in LA for a few meetings and staying near the airport. It

Totally agree, I'm from the States but the last few years I've been living in Europe but right now I'm in LA for a few meetings and staying near the airport. It's obviously a lower income area and it's absolutely shocking in comparison to Europe - there are only gas stations and fast food restaurants and the occasional corner store. Everything is incredibly expensive except for the fast food places which aren't exactly the paragons of healthy food production. Also - no banks. I almost always use a card but I wanted some cash just in case and realized that in this area every ATM charges $5 and up as a usage fee and there's no banks. Contrast that against where I had a meeting in a posh area in Santa Monica and there are plenty of banks with free ATMs and restaurants serving healthy (although super expensive) food. I think the US is also in a tough spot with our food regulations for quality - our frozen foods, sodas, etc. are just packed with garbage fillers and the regulators don't care to require food manufacturers to produce healthier food. Lots of things you would never think needed sugar inexplicably have sugar. Of course, you can say this is a consumer preference thing and the manufacturers are fulfilling a demand (and wouldn't be wrong - most people like sugary/flavorful stuff because we're really bad at discounting how much we value being healthy in the future vs. a tasty food right now).