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If you get cancer, you can have access to chemotherapy for free. And that’s basically it

We don't have a 2 party political system and have functional public transport.

In new ways every passing day!

In most urbanized areas, even in suburbs, you can buy daily necessities (food, personal hygiene, medicine, etc) in just a short walk. If in a subdivision, like in a suburb, there would be some houses with an attached corner store. Failing to find what you need there, a convenience store would be a bit further (either still inside the subdivision, or just out the gate).

If you need to do your groceries, you can use public transport to the market. Even within subdivisions (with some exceptions, like those for the wealthy), there usually would be some form of public transport that could take you to the main highway, and from there, to the market.

That's just one that immediately came to mind upon reading the prompt. Not sure if there are others, but it's the most striking to me, and one that I've taken for granted until hearing about the US' suburbs.

Being able to walk in the cities! And healthcare is also a big reason

Literally all of them except size of military.

We already went through the phase you just began.

5 weeks paid leave

Strike that. Let's try "What can America learn from your country to become a better nation?"

The value of human life and life in general.

If a foreigner comes to my country and suffers any ailment or accident, they receive treatment because life is understood as an absolute value. This implies that paying taxes goes towards creating a safety net that nobody really wants to rely on but is thankful to have when misfortunes happens.

I’m allowed to walk across the street without being arrested for ‘jay walking’.

We don't think we're the only and best in the world. We are interested in the culture of our neighbours. And we respect them.

I come from a third world country that is worse than the US in a lot of ways, but I don’t have to worry about getting shot by a rando with a gun.

Parliamentary democracy with proportional representation, affordable healthcare, affordable education, great roads and infrastructure with lots of cycling lanes, shops near homes, better labour laws, more vacation days, maternity leave, social safety net, less gun violence, police trained in de-escalation, affordable phone and internet plans, more affordable healthy food options, more egalitarian culture, none of those pesky hills or mountains, surrounded by countries that make good beer.

We, here in the UK, for all our faults, have waaaay fewer school shootings.... In fact way fewer shootings altogether (even when multiplied by ~5 for relative population size)

Healthcare, climate, food, democracy, measurement system, no death penalty, houses in concrete

We care about the planet.

A sane head of government, just that akone is priceless but apparently not that common anymore.

We have the four freedoms that guarantee the free movement of goods, capital, services, and people as part of the European single market.

Just off the top of my head:

State-sponsored higher education that is later paid back through taxes. Free healthcare, also paid for by taxes, and affordable medicine. Decent mass transit, although railways are a disgrace. Labour laws. Paid sick leave and mandatory minimum vacation days. Paid maternity leave, and tax breaks for new mothers.

PM is a Russian asset, but still better than Trump.

Healthcare, a sane leader who cares about his country, cheaper tuition, more than two parties, the metric system, less urban sprawl (though it’s still not great here), far less guns

This seems like a pretty obvious one: We have democracy.