There are a number of upsides to living in the US that I can think of.

First is the idea of a right to self-defense. Pretty huge deal. My local police have literally told people through the media not to resist muggers or burglars because you don't want to escalate the situation. That's all kinds of fucked up. You get shot. We get stabbed or a face full of acid.

Your police also seem much more to actually care about people breaking the law. Here, you're lucky if a rape gets prosecuted. A murder will but a mugging? Probably not depending on circumstances. Police will likely give up or conclude that presenting a case is too difficult. As a result, we have a large number of career criminals walking around responsible for most all the crime that happens and nobody cares until someone actually gets killed. But don't you dare say the wrong thing on twitter or they'll come for you and you will be facing jail time.

You have a much more politically engaged populace even if the sniping and bickering is much more childish than what I'm used to. People will discuss politics on a national level but very few seem interested in discussing what happens in Brussels. The average person in the street is much more out of touch with the EU bureaucracy than the average US citizen is out of touch with the federal government.

You have a credible military. We don't. When the US engages an enemy, there is zero doubt as to what the outcome of the fighting will be even if you have several instances of monumentally fucking up the peacekeeping afterwards. This also makes you safer in general because you can defeat someone without the use of nuclear weapons. We can't, really. At least the losses would be substantial to the point of losing popular support even in a defensive war.

While the guarantee of healthcare is pretty sweet, in fact vital to a healthy population, it's no panacea. Where you have insane insurance costs and personal bankruptcy due to medical procedures, we have creeping bureaucracy, incompetence and obsolete hardware (seriously, my local hospital still uses 3.5" floppies to transfer data). Where you can't afford medicine individually, we decide collectively that some medication is too expensive and then, not only don't we provide it, we also prevent people from getting it themselves if they're able in many cases. It's the worst of both worlds.

For all the waste, poor planning and mismanagement you see in the US federal govt. you can multiply that by 10 and you have the European bureaucracy. We couldn't organize ourselves out of a wet paper bag and we waste enormous amounts of taxpayer euros doing it before the French decide to take their ball and go home, the Germans get stuck with the bill and the UK goes off on their own to sulk. The Eurofighter is a decent example. There's a reason we buy so much US made equipment.

How many European cars can you mention? I mean brands currently owned by European companies. How many high traffic internet sites? How many aircraft, software products, electronics equipment etc. We used to have tons of these in the 80s. A "Buy European" campaign here wouldn't even pass the laughter test. Yes, I know you can google a few brands. That isn't the question. How many European space achievements come to mind? Keep in mind we're 740 million people to your 330.

Generalization obviously only scratches the surface and there's more we have in common than separates us but the endless everything-is-better-in-Europe attitude seen on reddit only betrays that the people saying this haven't lived here for any length of time. We have some good things. So do you.