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Comment by HarryHirsch | Hacker News Reader

There's a documentary on Netflix about physicians setting up shop on a race track to offer treatment to the poor and indigent in Bristol, TN: https://www.newsweek.com/remote-area-medical-shows-what-amer...

You wouldn't see these scenes in even the most deprived corners of Newcastle-upon-Tyne or the Rhondda Valley. The crowds the event attracts! This is what a developing country looks like.

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Those are "my people" - I live in Arkansas, but my family migrated from Scotland to Virginia, through Kentucky and Tennessee, to Arkansas and southern Missouri.

Yes, there's a pressing need for better access to medical care, but I wouldn't mistake that for being "like a developing country". That area has a culture that's entirely different than most anywhere else, and the people are... well, "prideful" fits better than any other descriptor that comes to mind.

The average household income in Bristol, TN is $38,895, which is lower than the US average. The average household income in the UK is $32,247.

Stats are from statista and US Census. This 'third world' area in middle America is richer than the average household in the UK.

Nominally, yes, but you know, for $32K, you can rent a flat, eat healthy food as much as you want and maybe you can even save to travel and see different cultures once or twice a year. If you broke your leg, you don't have to worry about health insurance. I think that's fair. You won't go far earning almost just the national minimum wage in any country, but in the UK, you can have a very stressless life.

Ahh, HN, where someone doing a good deed is an illustration of how the United States is secretly a third-world hellhole.