Why is America the best place to live on Earth?

(I am American and have lived 3 years in India, 8 years in the UK, 5 years in France and have extensively traveled across Asia and Europe)

Public Comments

1. it's comfortable with a high standard of living and there used to be opportunity. and in the end it's home, a little closer to that place we search for.
2. Who says it is? I'm English, I like living here. I'm sure the majority of people think that where they live, were brought up or where they choose to live is the best place
3. Because I live there.
4. we have the right to bear arms so if you bad talk America (especially in Texas) you could get shot haha, just kidding. I guess most countries think theirs is the best. I wish there was more emphasis on schools here. i mean we have great colleges but really crappy high schools, go figure.
5. I think if you find when you turn on your television or open up a newspaper, America is not the best place to live by a lot of people in most countries. Everyone from their birth country who were raised there would say the same, like I could say Australia is the best country to live in the world, New Zealanders would argue theirs is. A lot of pettiness and delusions of grandeur, really, if you don't even take in account the jump in crime statistics in your own county each year compared to the rest of the world. What was it now, one murder every 30 minutes, one suicide every 18 minutes, armed hold-ups, even a terrorist attack that everyone uses to stage a war on another country that had nothing to do with the attack?
6. What a stupid thing to say, I've travelled through more than 70 countries and lived in 7 over the last 30 years, and the one place which I consider the worst for just about everything except scenery in the wild, is america. It's a typical american mis-conception that you live in a wonderful place, due to all the bullshit you're fed by your arrogant government and your incredible lack of international knowledge concerning the rest of the world. Only 5 % of americans own a passport, doesn't that tell you something about your national desire for knowledge outside your borders, i.e. zip, as you say.
7. I didn't know it was. I grew up there, left when I was 20 and never regretted a second. The USA is culturally void, and pretty much becoming a hole. Questions like this usually come from people who have never lived anywhere else for any length (3 years +) of time. If you did leave, you might realize that the place is a hole. Are you really that naieve?