Sort by %: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemploym... given there are several developed countries with worse conditions

One day you'll wake up and realize that employment in America is always unusually high. During the depths of the last recession it barely crested 10%.

What makes it seem worse than it is has been the way these unemployed people are highly clustered today. There's counties with 50-60% unemployment, but they're low-population so they don't skew the national rate all that much. It certainly sucks to be in one of those affected areas, and I know people who are stuck there, but the big picture is a different thing.

America is far from a homogeneous thing, but it's also full of opportunity if you're able, willing and prepared to move to them.

I am honestly not that interested in America to wake up at some point and have crazy realizations about it. Its significant worse than where i am from (in every single metric), or the third world countries i just spend months in, and as stated above i was surprised myself how many other countries seem much worse than i expected.