The major difference being that the US ranks dead last among developed countries in every way that directly impacts the life of the average person on the street. Life Expectancy, poverty rates, murder rates, education, etc. etc.
Life Expectancy, poverty rates, murder rates, education, etc. etc.
All of those measures are not even close to homogeneous across the US, so any talk of the the "average person on the street" is meaningless, statistically.
You really have to segment the US in order to get an accurate picture for what it's like for a particular person (or kind of person, such as a typical HNer) to live here.
That's the whole point of taking a sample across a big population, we're talking about the average, not how life is for one particular group or another.
Everyone in America is impacted by the choice to put corporate profits ahead of public spending.
