Traveled around the world a lot.. The US isn't anywhere near the best as you say. It's also not the worst. It's just heavily car oriented and fuck-everything-else oriented (except maybe air travel but... TSA).
I can say that living in a big city with mobile phone payments on every form of public transport, and a highly reliable on-time system that's always clean and free of people you would worry about being alone with... Is a beautiful thing. And seriously reduces the friction for all kinds of things like...going to work. The countries like this usually don't have much traffic and therefore deliveries and other legitimate uses of the road are frequently unobstructed. But on the other hand, these places can be extremely dense and the people live on top of each other.





Somehow that guy can make a call and raise a billion dollars or 10.