What do you like best about America?

[choctawmicmac]

Originally Posted by JohnSoCal

My wife is Mexican and we lived in Mexico. We visit Mexico frequently to visit family and vacation. I am fluent in Spanish, worked and traveled extensively throughout the country.. Having said all of that, there are far more negatives to living in Mexico than can be compensated for by cheap Medical care.

What my experience of Mexico being "good" was, was that I didn't get treated like a foreigner on my own native continent like in Canada and the more redneck racist parts of the USA.

How you are treated by everyone you encounter on a daily basis is part of the consideration of whether life is "good" or "tolerable" or not.

In Mexico no one treated me like I didn't belong on "their" land or should go back to where I came from - those things I never heard, even with my limited California-Spanglish understanding.

Mexico never treated me like I was "lying" about being Native American and like a liar and everything else seems to flow from that.

[Caelan]

Originally Posted by choctawmicmac

Canada is better if you are old, sick, disabled, or tired and want to do nothing and live off the government! (Be it the Government of Canada or Indian Affairs). The USA is better if you want a JOB. The pace of life in Canada is absolutely LETHARGIC. Even McJobs like cleaning toilets and mopping floors are few and far between and take forever to hear back from!

Buwahahahaha! So very true!

[Erynn]

I really appreciate the freedom in America esp. in Southern California. It's O.K to shop in my P.Js without anyone staring, and in summer, I can just walk around in beach-suits from morning till 2am as long as I don't plan going to any church. Variety of food is a bonus.