Just wait until you live outside the US for a while and hear the stories about that place!!

I lived in Germany when they had those incidents of tourists in rental cars getting held up and shot. (Figure the Germans would resist!) It got to be a joke that vacations in the US were cheap, since you only needed a one-way ticket.

The US is well known for its dangerous weather (tornados, hurricanes, blizzards), guns, nutty religious fanatics (think Waco), high school massacres and aggressive drivers in monstrous SUVs. Why on earth would anyone want to immigrate there? (Never mind the international feeling about "corrupt government", health care only for the rich and all the druggies shooting up in the streets of the big cities.)

People live and work in Mexico and elsewhere and never encounter (or at least never are seriously inconvenienced) by most of the things "you hear" about the country. That's one of the benefits of living overseas - you get to find out for yourself.
Cheers,
Bev