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  No it's not our housing is higher, our wages are lower and our taxes are higher and our healthcare is worse because we simply can't get access to it. I'd rather be bankrupt and alive then die in a waiting room.
  Maybe it's better for the boomers but like I said before their boon has become future generations deficit anyone under 40 is way better off in the US than Canada.
context: I have a feeling that this 10th place is a result of American statistics being inflated by high average income.
  In case of Education, America ranks 19/41 in regards to student skills, 28/39 in social inequality and 30/39 in gender inequality. Overall Education score is pretty bad. 
  In Health, it ranked 29/41 in life expectancy, which is pretty bad, and its overall rank in Health is inflated by the really high self reported health. Second highest in the world, which is questionable when you remember both the life expectancy and obesity statistics. 
  And America straight up scores badly in Work and Life Balance and Safety Categories, being close to the bottom in both of these. It's 36/41 in homicide rates and 29/41 in both working hours and leisure time
  Many categories are either average or bad, with the exception of Income, Jobs and Housing, which are all related to wealth. In these America scores near the top. 
  So once again it seems that Americans are wealthy, yet in most non-money related categories America is scoring badly when compared to other rich nations. >
  
  Yes, American statistics are "inflated" by having high median income and standard of living. >
  
  My point being: if America scores number 1 in income and number 3 in wealth, but also scores 29/41 in life expectancy, 29/41 in hours worked and leisure time, 19/41 in student skills, 36/41 in homicide rate, and scores near the bottom on inequality in almost every category(34/35 in Civic Engagement, 28/39 in Education, 31/32 in Income)
  Then doesn’t it point to the fact that America has a pretty low quality of life for an average person, but it’s overall score is inflated by the very high income and wealth? 
  Which would support my original point: That America is richer than other rich countries, yet Americans have lower quality of life than people in other rich countries. >
  
  Is quality of life only measured in those criteria? What about general happiness, social cohesion etc? Do you want people here to share other metrics or do you only want to go by your limited list as in your post? >
  
  Happiness is a very hard to measure concept, there is no objective metric to measure how someone feels, as feeling are subjective. 
  We can look at suicide rates, where America scores worse than all other rich nations with 14.5 suicides per 100k people. Compared to 12.2 in Japan, 10.3 in Canada or 6.9 in the UK. Although it is also not a perfect metric. But it does appear that Americans are more likely to commit suicide, which doesn’t paint a great picture of happiness in the country. >
  
  Even in this ranking the US is close to the top, with countries ahead of it infamously having high sucide rates due to serious social issues and terrible working conditions. (Japan/South Korea)
  All other countries on this list, other than Belgium, are much poorer than America. 
  The GDP per capita of Hungary is $18.7k, for Slovenia it's $29k. For Belgium it's $51.7k and for America it's $69.2k
  So depending on the source, America is either the worst of rich countries, or one of the worst. So it's not a big upgrade. >
  
  So close to the top, but not at the top, per your comment. Also, let’s qualify what you consider the rich countries you’re using here. What’s the GDP cutoff? >
  
  Close to the top still means that it does worse than most other similar countries. 
  I would say countries with GDP per capita of $40k-$50k and over are the best comparison. Below that there are countries with less than half of America's GDP per capita. And when one person is twice as rich as another person, it's hard to exactly call them "similarly wealthy" >
  
  Ok. Taking your midpoint of $45k, that’s about 20 or so countries representing about 2 percent of the global population. So arguing that the average standard of living for someone in the US is at the bottom of the top 2 percent globally isn’t all that strong of a point. >
  
  This is not what I'm arguing. I'm arguing that the quality of life in America is worse than in other similarly rich countries.
  Yes, Americans live better than Brazilians, or Mexicans, or Nigerians, or Indians, but these countries are way way poorer than America.
  America should be compared to countries that are similarly rich, like Canada, Australia, the UK, or Germany. All of these have similar median income and GDP per capita (In fact, they are still poorer in these regards than America), and outperform America in pretty much all quality of life aspects. >
  
  Ok, so what? The US population is still in the top few percent of standard of living in the world. The fact that there’s a few hundred million people living better doesn’t mean that the US has a poor quality of life. >
  
  You should read that source a bit better regarding hours worked:
  
  The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year because of differences in their sources and method of calculation. >
  
  I live in Canada and our quality of life is declining rapidly, what you said might have been true 10 years ago but it is not true today, our healthcare is failing, housing the most expensive in the world our wages have been stagnant for decades, there's help wanted signs everywhere because people literally can't afford to live in the area on the wages being offered and instead of letting the market sort it out our country is importing more people to drive down the wages which will also increasing housing prices. 
  Despite our infrastructure and government services failing our taxes are increasing and to make matters worse the government is reducing fertilizer farmers can use so we'll be starving in a year. 
  The boomers owning property that's perpetually rising in value is masking the stats so  it looks like everything is fine, but everything is only fine if you bought a house decades ago the mortgage on that is cheaper than rent for a bedroom is today it's also why employers are struggling to replace retiring employees boomers had cheaper bills to pay and ever appreciating assets but that boon is turning into a deficit for the next generation who can't even afford rent on the wages being offered so they can't replace staff, they also haven't been training anyone because they can just demand schooling and experience and get it from foreigners who likely just lied on their resume. >
  
  You are not alone mate, same is happening in the UK for example. But also happening in the US. Even if it's declining in Canada, it's still better than the US because you started off better.