Thank you for illustrating perfectly my point about blind prejudice towards the US.  Spoken like someone who has never been to either the US or China.  If you had been to China you would know that there is absolutely no comparison between the poverty levels of the 2. 

Now I don't know where you got those percentages and I'm not doubting that they're true.  However, they are probably based on the US dollar as per what the poverty level is and I can guarantee you from experience that the dollar goes a whole hell of a lot further in China than it does in the U.S.  I have seen poverty in China and it makes U.S. poverty look like wealth.

You didn't respond to half my post, LOL

Regardless, you're arguement is that UK < USA, but what everyone else who is voting says....they both suck. You're only arguing that they don't suck as much as China, and that's fine, everyones got their own opinion. Just want to say because you're American you are a lot more oblivious the the flaws of living in the USA.

Visit Europe sometime, you'll see the huge difference in standards of living. You'll see a world without stucco housing which fall apart in a few years, places where restaurants actually cook your food from scratch, instead of reheat/recook it, places where the women are beautiful, products are reliable, and there isn't an add every 3 blocks telling you to go to Wal-Mart and buy an i___.

LOL, only in the USA (and UK, and probably Australia too) is Heart Disease the #1 killer.

The U.S.A

I like the feeling of walking down the street without worrying if I'm going to get shot.

Thank you for illustrating perfectly my point about blind prejudice towards China.

Wikipedia, those poverty rates are CIA estimates.

Also, poverty in the USA is laregely covered up. You can always get a government subsidized home and live without heat/air con, but a lot of Americans struggle just to eat and live. Ever hear the expression "living from one paycheck to another?"

China isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Take Foxconn for instance, it's the Chinese company responsible for making electronics by nearly every brand. They make TV's, iPhones, Wii's, Cell Phones, you name it, they make it. They employ more people then any one country in Europe has. Foxconn pays people really little, but they also provide a lot, people who have been to Foxconn compare it to a high school. You have a library, a cafeteria, a tennis court, etc, etc, and you have Foxconn $$'s which are only excepted by Foxconn. These people still get paid real Chinese currency, but you know what? The suicide rate at Foxconn is lower then the suicide rate in US High schools and Universities, and Foxconn schools children too. If you've ever been there you will see that these 80 million people are so, generally the poorer people of China, live better lives then many students in the USA.

So while there might be a larger percentage of homeless people in China, the actualy poverty rate is lower because the people who do have homes live more comfortable lives then the people at the bottom of the pyramid in the USA.

I have it say the USA even if I live there.
Don't get me wrong, I like the place where I am in the US but it is so atypical it doesn't represent how the living conditions are in the majority of the US.

Basically when looking at the US you have Austin, Texas and Boulder, Colorado ( both cities or their neighborhood gets ranked in top 10 best place to live in the US every year and both are very atypical of the state they are located in, and both are huge college towns and ultra liberal cities..) and then the rest of the US.

I live near Boulder...

Japan and eastern europe

That is my point - safety isn't an issue.

You are the one that said the USA and China are comparable - I promptly rebutted it. Now you're trying to say it was my argument? 

Oh, Michael, you try so hard and still come up empty. It must really burn you.

What?

I'm talking about how obesity kills. Almost everywhere else, Cancer tops Heart Disease.

What are you talking about? Accidental Deaths fall way down the list on every country, most people die of old age.

You quoted me about my list of causes of death in the US. That was in response to those that think the USA is a hot bed for murder - just putting it into perspective. 

Homicide 1 in 4,800  or 0.00028%

Anyway, I'm glad you've decided to abandon your pursuit of comparing China to the USA. It was futile.

"most people die of old age" - nah, old age hasn't been a cause of death since the advent of modern medicine. Not sure where you've been.