'income' and GDP in America is heavily inflated by economic rents and bloated prices. For example, 18% of US GDP goes to healthcare, yet tens of millions have no insurance or access to care, and those that don't get to deal with the one of the worst public health systems in the developed world. That we pay more doesn't actually make us wealthier, even though we have a bigger GDP as a result. We pay more for everything: transit, phone, internet, credit, education, etc.
Deep poverty is widespread, and a huge swath of the country is living hand to mouth, and deeply indebted.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/20/here...d-expense.html
We have several of the busiest airports because our countries air network has condensed around a handful of hub airports, we have disproportionately large major cities and no meaningful rail network. Your trips link doesn't cite any source.
Meanwhile the evidence shows americans are deeply lonely and isolated.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...not-be-helping We live in islolating suburbs in single family homes where we often don't engage with our neighbors at all, do most of our commerce at giant chain stores we drive to, and often our only friends are at work. Not all of this fits everyone, but this is the stereotypical American life.