> China is actually by all measures a much better place to live than the US.
I think that's an overgeneralization. There are many things that do "work better" or "improve faster". Mass transit and metropolitan cleanliness are good examples of this (with exceptions, of course).
However, the lack of a strong regulatory body for things like food quality and water quality still make it a much riskier place to live IMO.
That's not to say China won't, for example, achieve a one billion+ person version of Singapore in our lifetimes, but I still have a "wait and see" attitude towards this.
Note: I have lived in China and travelled nearly 6K miles by mass transit to all kinds of places there.
I think that's an overgeneralization. There are many things that do "work better" or "improve faster". Mass transit and metropolitan cleanliness are good examples of this (with exceptions, of course).
However, the lack of a strong regulatory body for things like food quality and water quality still make it a much riskier place to live IMO.
That's not to say China won't, for example, achieve a one billion+ person version of Singapore in our lifetimes, but I still have a "wait and see" attitude towards this.
Note: I have lived in China and travelled nearly 6K miles by mass transit to all kinds of places there.