The suicide rate in the US is 2.5x higher than in Vietnam. Clearly people are a lot more fucked up mentally in the US than in Vietnam.<p>Also, anecdotally, I was much less depressed in Vietnam than in Canada&#x2F;US. You don&#x27;t realize how oppressive day-to-day life is here until you&#x27;ve lived there. Everything in the west requires &#x27;insurance&#x27; and &#x27;licenses&#x27; and &#x27;regulation&#x27; and there&#x27;s always someone telling you what to do and how to do it.