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The United States is massive both in terms of its physical size and its population. More importantly, there are lots of concentrations of people all along that giant land mass. So, as an American, it's really hard to generalize us as a single group. Sure, New Yorkers really aren't that different from Bostonians and Philadelphians in the grand scheme of things, but they're certainly different from Texans and people from LA. America is huge with lots of different cultures centered around lots of different institutions.

As someone who grew up really close to both New York and Philly, I unabashedly love both those cities. But small-town USA which is often depicted, idyllically, as the heart of the USA is mind-numbingly boring.

I'm not going to get into the specifics of US government and its shocking inability to pass any substantive, because either I would just be confirming what everyone else has said (it sucks) or I would be getting into such small, trivial details that I am sure I would bore everyone to tears.

I love travelling and seeing other countries, but America has a lot of great cities, too. Except LA. I hate LA.