When I left US in early 2000 and then visited again in 2008, I could already feel the marked difference. There was a palpable loss of morale. The strangest incident I remember was how the white rich execs loved Obama, but the black taxi drivers hated him (I think that was around 2011-2012).

I cannot imagine how it must feel there. God, when I visit again next time, I hope its as beautiful as I remember in late 90s.

Context: the Reddit comment on a post in /collapse, which I’ve copied and pasted below

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Location: Metro NYC and Philly

I’m an American expat looking to move back to the US from the Netherlands. I was all set to move and took 3 weeks off to look at houses in the Philly/Wilmington area. I also spent some time with my folks/brother in North Jersey and NYC. I hadn’t been back since Nov 2019.

It’s so different. The supply chain problems are there of course, but it’s more than that. Everyone I know is anxious to leave where they are. Everyone is a little depressed and very worried. Americans look so much fatter and sicker than they did just 3 years ago. Infrastructure is just awful, even in the richer of areas of Jersey that used to be nice. Amazon basically owns NYC in a weird dystopian kind of way. We were there for the flash floods and really made it out by the skin of our teeth. Never seen anything like it.

But more than that there was just a feeling in the air. An anxious feeling. And it was like all my friends and family could feel it.

We already paid the immigration lawyer, but we’ve got to do a lot of reconsidering. I really feel like the US is collapsing very quickly.

Which SubReddit is this from?