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This is a serious question because the following issues in the United States are a big part of what is driving me out of the USA, and I need to know if The Netherlands will be any better.

Here are some facts about life in big cities in California now:

Shoplifting is rampant. Shoplifting in San Francisco became so bad that all the Walgreens stores in that city shut down and moved out of state. The problem is that new California law states that shoplifting is legal unless done repeatedly or the item is priced at over several hundred dollars, therefore homeless people began shoplifting extensively. I constantly see people shoplifting from convenience stores and clothing stores, and when I talked to a manager at one of those stores the manager told me that the store cannot do anything about it because it is legal, so the store does not worry about it, and just charges the insurance company for the losses.

Road rage is rampant. Even if you are driving at a legal speed, someone who feels that you are moving too slow for their taste will suddenly swerve in front of your vehicle, clearing it by only inches, then oftentimes their vehicle goes out of control due to hitting the dirt shoulder, whereupon their vehicle flips, hits a wall, or hits some other vehicle.

Racism is rampant. I have had rocks and bottles thrown at me, downtown and in a park, sometimes by children, sometimes by adults, just because I was of a different race. Very often in a downtown area I will pass someone who is shouting racist remarks while walking by themselves, or shouting into a cell phone about racism. I overheard someone in a homeless facility talking about how some friends he knew were raising their children to be racist, and that the children already hated the other race.

Lawbreaking is rampant. I cannot drive anywhere for more than 15 minutes without being guaranteed to see someone driving recklessly, like running a stop sign, making an illegal U-turn, changing lanes in an intersection, changing lanes illegally, or texting while driving. I cannot visit any public place without seeing someone smoking illegally, parking illegally, having their dog run free, having their dog defecate on the ground without cleaning it up, intentionally jaywalking dangerously so that they can sue any driver who hits them since they are poor and need the money, seeing someone selling drugs, shooting up heroin in plain view, urinating or defecating in plain view, stealing a bicycle, or passing a vehicle whose side window has been smashed with its glass all over the ground.

Police are useless. I overheard one police officer on duty talking to another one near a public beach, wondering why they were even working when they were forbidden to give anybody tickets as everybody walked by without a face mask during the COVID restrictions, or even parked illegally at that beach. I once called the police about a man slapping a woman on a public street, and the person answering my call just switched my call over, without saying anything, to a non-emergency number where nobody answered. I once called the police about a naked woman climbing a chain link fence downtown at night and they said they could not do anything about it. I once reported a racist incident where a man on the bus stood up and kicked me hard in the shin for no apparent reason, and the police warned me that if I had even so much as brushed the man when I walked by him, that would constitute felony assault and I would be the one who got arrested. One mass shooting at a high school was done by a teenager there who had multiple incidents where he was detained by police, but because he was of a minority race they let him free every time until he killed several people.

Homelessness is rampant. San Francisco, Los Angeles, and some parts of San Diego have so many homeless people that 'tent cities' of homeless people have sprung up, often spanning a half mile or so, along the sidewalks and even along the sides of the streets. It is dangerous to park in such areas because cars get burglarized, it is dangerous to walk down such streets because the homeless people often have vicious dogs, and trash and feces accumulate on those streets, especially in San Francisco. I once passed a parked car with a sign in its window saying that the guy living inside was homeless despite having a masters degree in computer science and having 5 years of experience in that field.

Relocation to another state in the United States will not help much, since other states are having riots combined with arson, and other states are so strict in other ways that I would just be exchanging one state's hysteria for another state's hysteria. That is not to mention pervasive corruption everywhere.

I have never been to Europe, but I have a hard time believing that all cities in the world are suffering these types of problems to such an extreme degree, especially from what I have read, especially about the law-abiding behavior of Scandinavians. Is Europe, especially The Netherlands, suffering from such problems, or are these conditions and attitudes unique to the United States?