I meant relative to ours. They don't have nearly the disastrous kinds of problems that we do. Healthcare is a right. University educations in most of these places are free (e.g. Ireland) or affordable or free (e.g. Switzerland). The roads aren't full of potholes and the Dutch dikes won't give way in a hurricane because the people who built them thought ahead and cared about quality. you can take public transportation to almost anywhere you need to go, and fares are heavily subsidized to encourage its use.

I'm not saying that western Europe is perfect, but the governments over there care more about the welfare of their citizens than ours does in the US.