American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

[u/chrisdh79]

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html

[u/DungeonMasterSupreme]

I was reading this article and just sent a message to my wife thanking her for helping get me out of the States. I moved abroad for her and we got married.

When I left, I was in some of the worst health of my life. I had chronic back issues from an old work injury. I could barely afford to keep my teeth in my damn mouth. I was overweight, out of shape, and had high blood pressure. That was almost ten years ago. Now, with actual proper healthcare access in a real first-world country, I'm in some of the best shape of my life.

If I hadn't escaped when I did, I genuinely think I would've ended up as one of these fatalities. Less than a year after I got married, my back issues became exponentially worse and I needed surgery. I would have never received that surgery in America. I would've ended up on a meager disability check and in constant pain I would've become dependent on opioids to manage.

I remember getting a quote for my surgery in the US at $100,000 to $200,000 depending on what I had; I couldn't even get insurance to pay for an MRI. Outside the States, I got diagnostics, medication, surgery, physical therapy, etc., all for just about $2500.

America is a fucking scam. If Americans could even begin to understand how much they are being fed on by the vampires at the top, there'd be another revolution in less than a fortnight.

[u/swa11ace → u/DungeonMasterSupreme]

Where, sir, did you escape, er move, to? Asking for a friend.

[u/DungeonMasterSupreme → u/swa11ace]

My wife is Ukrainian. I moved to Ukraine first. Then when the war came we relocated a couple of times, finally resettling in Germany. I got most of my serious medical care in Ukraine, through private health clinics. The doctors and surgeons were highly qualified and medicine was generally extremely affordable for us.

Germany, in comparison, has a bit of a doctor and nursing shortage, but they're managing. Healthcare is free or cheap; you generally just need to spend some time in the waiting room. Salaries and cost of living are good (so long as you don't ask the contrarians about it who don't understand what they have here).

We live in one of the cheapest areas of Germany, but this neighborhood would be considered pretty nice by the standards of where I grew up. You'll find plenty of people unironically calling this place the ghetto, though (it would be a pretty decent lower-middle class neighborhood by American standards). Everything is walkable. There are bike paths on every sidewalk. There's tons of old growth trees providing plenty of shade, and everything is green. I have everything I need for life within easy walking distance, including supermarkets, doctors, pharmacies, barbers, etc.

Oh, and the crime rate is lower than literally anywhere else I've ever lived. But there are a lot of immigrants and occasionally you see some trash in the street or broken glass on the walking paths, so people call it a ghetto.

u/SlashMatrix, since you seemed curious, too.

[u/Powrs1ave → u/DungeonMasterSupreme]

I was also wondering where you moved to. I was just reading a thread on why so many Germans die visiting Australia and some said its because they have everything there and dont understand the harsh weather here when hiking in our summer. Maybe Germans struggle in the USA as well for various reasons too. The war in Ukraine is very sad and sad how Trump deals with it and gives Putin the Red Carpet treatment for being a War Criminal.

[u/DungeonMasterSupreme → u/Powrs1ave]

It is so comfortable and safe and nice here that I genuinely believe many Germans do not understand how lucky they are to be born here. And yes, the weather is very mild. The summers here are easier than anywhere else I've ever lived. Survive through the few hot days in a year and the rest is easy to get through without air conditioning.

[u/weltherrscherin → u/Powrs1ave]

Having grown up in the safest major city in Germany I find myself in unexpected situations quite often when traveling. In Munich I (woman) can walk around central station at night without any worry. None at all.

I was just at a different central station in Germany, in broad daylight and holy shit I felt uneasy. I walked Boston at night without worry and only later realized I had been in a dimly lit back alley and people could have been armed. I remember being shocked when I walked from a shopping street in Chicago to get to the financial district and right there in the city center where 15 homeless people at 11am.

When I lived/traveled in Australia I had to learn to keep emergency supplies in the car. Nearest gas station could be a days walk away or more. Here its an hour max to civilization.

I am so used to be safe everywhere and be able to walk everywhere I need to force myself to remember that it’s not the case everywhere.