U.S./Canada vs. Europe (POLL) (life, cost, country, people)

[Libnani]

Canada and the U.S. are the second and third largest countries in the world, while Europe is slightly larger than the U.S. alone by size.
Yet, Europe has a population of ~ 731 million, while U.S. and Canada combined has ~ 350 million. USA alone would not be fair to compare with Europe since is has less than half of Europe's population and slightly smaller in size as well.

• Location:
• Architecture/Scenary diversity:
• History:
• Religion:
• Quality of life:
• Housing (living)/Cars:
• Cost of living/taxes:
• Govn./Economy:
• Education system:
• Infrastructure:
• Climate diversity:
• Demographic diversity:
• People/Friendliness:
• Fashion:
• Enterteiment/Things to see-do:
• Shopping/Retail stores:
• Currency:
• Language(s):

Would you rather live in U.S./Canada or Europe? Why?
Please post serious comments/opinions only, and fallow city-data rules
Thank you

[Glucorious]

Oh, no. Not this again. That's not gonna end well.

[Libnani]

• Location: Tie, depends on if you like to be closer to the Middle East, Asia and Africa, or closer to South America, Central America and Caribbean.
• Architecture/Scenary diversity: I love U.S./Canadian skylines, but European cities have somewhat nicer architecture, but it's difficult choice.
• History: I don't care about history, but Europe is older.
• Religion: U.S./Canada since it's more religious. Europe is very secular!
• Quality of life: Tie
• Housing (living)/Cars: U.S./Canada by a mile
• Cost of living/taxes: U.S./Canada is overall cheaper and less taxes.
• Govn./Economy: U.S./Canada
• Education system: U.S./Canada has better universities
• Infrastructure: Europe (I hate N. Americas overhead powerlines)
• Climate diversity: U.S./Canada by a mile
• Demographic diversity: U.S./Canada
• People/Friendliness: U.S./Canada
• Fashion: Outside of Quebec and major cities like NYC, Europe hands down!
• Enterteiment/Things to see-do: U.S./Canada
• Shopping/Retail stores: U.S./Canada.... it's cheaper and more available!
• Currency: $ I like the dollar
• Language(s): U.S./Canada (English & French which are world languages and UN's official)

[ErikJohnsson]

Not surprised Canada/US is ahead as this is a US-based site and many who post on the world sections are Americans who live or have lived abroad. I voted for Europe.

Location: Europe. More centrally located. US has the vast pacific ocean to its west.
Architecture/Scenary diversity: Europe. I don't like cold, corporate skylines.
History: Europe. Americans know very little about native American history. Most of history lessons start with European settlers. Though perhaps that's good if you're a student as there is far less to cover.
Religion: Europe. I'm not religious.
Quality of life: Europe. More European countries and cities dominate these surveys. Canada is often up there as well though.
Housing (living)/Cars: Tie. You get a better value for your money in the US in terms of size, but in terms of convenience, the more densely populated cities in Europe are better even if the property size is smaller. US car companies are on life support, German car companies are still doing extremely well.
Cost of living/taxes: US/Canada.
Govn./Economy: Europe, minus Latin Europe and the UK. Their governments rank the highest on the democracy index. More parties in government. US government is incredibly corrupt and just 2 parties run the show. Canada is in between. Canada's economy is in better shape, the US is a wreck right now. Likewise, Latin Europe and the UK are in a wreck, north of France and Italy are doing quite fine under the circumstances of the global economy.
Education system: Tie. Europe, including the UK, offers a mix of well ranked free/affordable universities as well as top ranked elite universities. The US has a boat load of universities, but the top ones cost a fortune, and the cheap ones still cost quite a bit. Canada's universities are more affordable.
Infrastructure: Europe. Better public transit, beautiful bridges, nicer looking cities.
Climate diversity: U.S./Canada.
Demographic diversity: Tie. Within each country, the US and Canada. The total mixture of all the countries, including the UK, then Europe.
People/Friendliness: U.S./Canada
Fashion: Europe
Entertaiment/Things to see-do: Tie. Europe for more traditional arts, festivals, sight-seeing. US/Canada for pay-entertainment, like movies, music shows, and theme parks.
Shopping/Retail stores: Tie. Europe has more variety, US/Canada is cheaper.
Currency: Euro looks better. May be extinct soon if their economic troubles continue.
Language(s): U.S./Canada. Way too many languages in a small area in Europe. Not everyone knows English, and those who do will still mostly want to talk in their native language.

[Vichel]

Sorry, way too broad. As per the TOS, we need to keep questions more specific. It's very difficult making comparisons about such disparate countries/continents and cultures. Even Canada and the US are vastly different from each other, as are provinces, states, regions, cities within each of those countries. Same for Europe. I'll let country vs country questions through but not vast areas of the world vs other vast areas of the world.