Snapshots 1 . This Post , could not autoarchive click to resubmit it ! , run 1 could not autoarchive click to resubmit it ! I am a bot . rSnapshillBot messagecompose ? torSnapshillBot <| sep |> Anything that ' s not Made for iPhone will work . <| sep |> are the only guns we have here though , mate <| sep |> I have always felt that america is a much harder place to live i many aspects compared to many European countries , especially the Scandinavian ones . Bad social security , no universal health care , expensive schools to name a few . But for what ? Lower taxes ? I gladly pay 40 % tax knowing that it enables everyone to have have all those tings for free , because it makes society much . eh . calmer ? and more . easy for everyone , thus making it less likely that someone comes by and rape me in the butt because desperation and bad influence has driven them to the edge . At the risk of oversimplifying , this was exactly the allure of the Wild West . You lived and died by your wits , your inner strength and willpower and resourcefulness . It was never about safe sheltered living . And the people who went to the Wild West were either running away from something , or were non conformists who wanted to be left alone , or were very ambitious and felt they were stifled by the bureaucracy , corruption , nepotism , old boys network , etc . that they encountered of Europe . In the US , the gubmint interfered less with their business , they had access to a lot more opportunity and natural resources , and the free market was a lot freer . Over time , the US became more like Europe , but this is also how it is still fundamentally different from Europe .