"You feel it any time you interact with a customer service person. Restaurants, stores, especially any kind of "gig economy" service like getting food delivered. They hate serving you and hate their job."

Have you traveled widely within the United States (including 'boring areas')?

I've experienced this feeling in places like where I currently live, NYC, but don't feel it as much where I grew up in a boring suburb.

Not to say there aren't other problems. But I get nearly the same feeling of safety as I did in Europe or Asia.