you have a nice day young man and I love you I have nothing against you but respect young man I I want you I'm going to tell you something I have I have said to you you without a
border you don't know who the hell you're talking to boy I I I would give a damn it was you man I'm not in a hurry okay I'm hry I'm going here you make yourself young man I forg
give you for your I forgive you because you are there always two I get on the bus I'm not the exercising right he going to tell me don't get on the bus that's going to get on your goddamn
bus and like a damn fool you go away you go away a nice I love you brother hey YouTube Alex here coming to you today from changai Thailand what do I not miss about living in the United States
the number one reason I don't miss living in in the United States is the Mental Health crisis in the clip that you just watched I took that when I was living in Berkeley California when I was riding home
from doing laundry that's just one small example if you could call it small I know for those who haven't lived in the Bay Area it looks pretty extraordinary for those of you who haven't that's just one small example
of the chaos and the Mental Health crisis in the United States that's not just in California the mental health situation seems to be spreading across the country I know California gets a lot of flak I think that's just
because there's a large population there if you've spent time in any major city in the United States and you've witnessed something that could only be described as a mental health crisis there's no real way for the average citizen
to address this due to changes in laws these people cannot be committed what I'm talking about is there's certain individuals that cannot function they are permitted to act while do whatever they want to do this issue is Amplified
by a culture of aggression that guy was giving the bus driver a really hard time I personally have been bugged by vagrant Beggars by people hanging around outside of train stations in the Bay Area if you don't give
them money some tend to get quite angry unfortunately the political willpower is just not there to address the issue in any meaningful way in the US it's a culture where it's acceptable not only to be aggressive act out
depending on where you are you're not going to get push back at all as a response to this like with everything in America if somebody can make a dollar off of putting a Band-Aid on it they're going to
we see this with the pharmaceutical industry pushing of that stuff the culture of aggression and the social struggle with mental ailments is not going to be solved anytime soon the country is run by business owners some of whom
are willing to make money even if it actively prevents certain problems from being solved the desires of these business owners seems to supersede everything else I could go go on and on about that crisis in the US I'm
not going to in this video definitely check out some of my other videos if you're interested in topics like that alongside that I've had various mental health elements within my own family that I felt were not taken as
seriously as they should have been some of that is due to being in an area with inadequate Mental Health Resources but some of that is also the culture of hustle and grind the number two point here is High
Cost of Living caused by in part artificial inflation what is artificial inflation that is inflation that is caused by poor policy and not just supply and demand people act like oh America has supply and demand when you look
at the housing crisis the housing crisis is not caused because Americans have forgotten how to build housing Americans don't have the skills to build new houses Americans are intellectually incapable of putting a house together it's actually because of
laws and Zoning restrictions that fall under what many call nimbyism this policy artificially restricts the construction of new housing it makes it such that 75% of dwellings the United States are single family homes and if you can't afford
that you're going to be paying really high rent a lot of people think we just change the laws alleviate it well now construction has become so expensive you got on the ladder or you didn't it's not a matter
of oh they're going to suddenly make housing affordable no the government wants to put pressure on people and financial stress on people by artificially constricting housing because not only does it make the existing houses go up and price
dramatically it also makes it so that people have to work harder just to pay for Necessities I would describe the US as a country with a declining standard of living for the average person while it may be going
up in absolute dollar amounts that doesn't take into account what those dollars actually buy if those dollars buy less housing less food less Transportation they're not necessarily getting ahead even if the number amount on their paycheck is going
up in an effort to survive people give up a lot of the things that they they used to enjoy doing because they need to work more hours to pay for things the third point I have for you here
is that there's a lot of unhappiness out there you notice that when you look at videos of New York City or San Francisco or LA and you look at the street level and people are walking with their heads
down they just look beaten down from the stress of working all the time not getting enough rest probably drinking a lot of coffee and being overstimulated to get through what they need to do and it's just a recipe
for unhappy people I think it's hard on relationships I think it's hard on families and I think that's why so many people are are opting out of having kids these days you also see this in road rage I
remember in my hometown it was extraordinarily rare to see road rage when I was a kid and now it's very common place it's in the news on a regular basis you see people just totally losing their patience while
driving and it's really another unfortunate sign I frame it like the American workingclass people are beaten down the next point point number four is the loss of unique culture and this is something I've definitely noticed since the pandemic
where everything shut down but it seems like everybody's kind of shifted away from any kind of tradition they're just in the consumer mindset as a result of that I think people lose some of the things that make them
interesting or unique in lie of tradition people substitute politics or Sports to get that tribal feeling going on because so many of us have moved around so much for work like myself then we don't really have roots in
any one place I am a migrant surf where I'm willing to move just about anywhere in the US for work I don't really care where it is and I think that was gone for a while I think it
might have been a thing a long time ago but I think that's coming back where people they just move to wherever the work is they're not a homeowner where they're tied down to one location I know some people
will say that sounds awesome but after a while it gets old when I move to California then I'm the guy from Tennessee when I come back to Tennessee I'm the guy who left Tennessee and moved to California there
are times where I wish I could just go back to my childhood home I visited there several years ago and I hardly recognized the place I didn't see anybody I knew most of the people I grew up with
have moved on the few people left were very fortunate and that their families held on to a family home for a long time but I think a lot of people were not in that situation the fifth and final
reason is the car dependency I've been here in Thailand for close to 8 months without a car and I don't miss it it's a necessity where I'm from and when I'm in my hometown it's always nice to be
able to use a personal vehicle but part of that is a lack of public transit in my hometown in my hometown there's no train system the bus system is pretty small you're not going to get around on public
transit I don't know anybody that does except for maybe some people that happen to live in a really good location where they can just get on one bus and ride 15 20 minutes which isn't very many people it's
just not a robust system let's say but here in Thailand not only are there a lot of things available within walking distance where I live in the city but also there's song tows there's also Tuk Tu there's grabs
there's a lot of different options for you to get around you don't feel like you have to have a personal vehicle even in a city like San Francisco really densely populated even in Manhattan one of the most densely
populated cities in the United States 50% of the people have a vehicle personal vehicle outside of a small handful of expensive cities in the US you have to have a car I don't miss having to pay to maintain
a vehicle I still own a vehicle back home but at least while I've been gone certain maintenance costs are deferred or not needed as frequently since I'm not there driving every day let me know if this video has
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