Australia is a better place to live than the USA.

Maybe you missed out on this, the USA national debt is nearly 10 TRILLION dollars. That's right TRILLION, the USA national debt currently is 65% of the gross domestic product. SIXTY FIVE PERCENT!!! Let me ask you, who is going to be paying for this debt? You got it, the people. The national debt will cost about $31,000 dollars per person to pay off. Sound like good living to you? Not to me, recent estimates state that it will take upwards of 7 generations to pay off. In fact, if you want to count this debt against the GDP (certainly not an unreasonable thing to do) then the USA GDP per person would be about $14,750. Not very impressive. Onto some points of yours... -You somehow claim that the USA having more billionaires makes it better to live in the USA. Not only are the chances negligible of becoming a billionaire in both countries, but you've given no reason to suggest why this is even a matter of chance, you say yourself that one must work hard to achieve this. If this is the case, why even bring up probabilities? -Constant talking of your population and 'language barriers' proves nothing. This isn't about what the USA would be like if it had less people, or how things would be if people only spoke english. It's about things as they are, and as it stands, you can't dodge the facts. -You laugh at the claim, and yet present no evidence whatsoever to attempt to rebut it. Not only this, but you attack a reputable source with once again, not one shred of evidence. I feel inclined to suggest you are being weak by dismissing the facts I have presented as 'rubbish' without anything supporting your claim. -I am fully aware that the USA is not socialist (which you seem to think is an insult, but whatever). However, it is quite frankly laughable that you say that it is the illness killing the person and not the lack of insurance. This is comparable to blaming the ground for killing someone who jumped off a building. Lack of health insurance apparently CAUSED these deaths, which means, with health insurance these people would not be dead. -An assault? This can be anything from a backyard fight, to a friendly muck around, to a full blown mugging. Everyone gets in a scrap, especially males in their adolescence. The sexual assault stats also are not clear, because in australia this includes consensual sex under the age of 16 (or someone 18+ having sex consensually with someone between 16-18). -Complaining about "9/11, Hurricane Katrina, droughts, 200 year flood, two wars in the past, high production costs, high fuel," really does nothing at all, following your logic, the standard of living in Darfur is much better than Australia and the USA combined. Once again you are mislead by your GDP growth rate due to the USA's crippling national debt, recession, and near bankrupt economy. -Well, actually no. The USA's poverty percentage is currently between 12 and 15% with roughly 40% (about 120 million people) will fall below the poverty line in the next 10 years. Not only this, but according to the human poverty index, 20% of americans lack functional literary skills and 17% of people fall below 50% of the median income. (human poverty index) Now let's move onto why life in Australia is superior to the already established poor life in the USA. One of my main points, is a referral to the Human Development Index, this is a report used by the UN to establish LIVING STANDARDS of different countries, also " The Human Development Index (HDI) is an index combining normalized measures of life expectancy, literacy, educational attainment, and GDP per capita for countries worldwide. It is claimed as a standard means of measuring human development, a concept that, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) refers to the process of widening the options of persons, giving them greater opportunities for education, health care, income, employment, etc. " Now, lets take a look at that Index shall we? http://hdr.undp.org... What do we find? We find that Australia ranks THIRD and the USA ranks a rather unimpressive TWELFTH. I'll state that again... An empirical study on standard of living ranks Australia third and the USA 12th. Moving on to studies of the world's most livable cities (the economist, and mercer, both of which are fully supported by the UN). A bit of information on the actual studies "Mercer's Quality of Life Survey is released annually, comparing 215 cities based on 39 criteria...Important criteria are safety, education, hygiene, recreation, political-economic stability and public transportation." So what do we see on the respective lists? -In the "economist's" study, four, thats right, FOUR Australian cities are in the top ten (Melbourne 2nd, Perth 4th, Adelaide tied at 7th, and Sydney tied at 9th). Where do US cities rank in this list? Nowhere, not one spot in the top ten is occupied by a US city. -Mercer's list shows five Australian cities gracing the top 50, the first US city to appear on that list is Honolulu which ranks 28. Three of the five Australian cities occupying the top 50 rank above Honolulu. You read correctly. It should be clear from these studies that from the people's opinion's that matter (ie, we eliminated subjectivity as you said in round 1) that Australia is a better place to live than the USA.