Disgusting or not, it's a fact. In every country Chinese people go to, they commit relatively little crime.
It's not about the speed of light. Chinese censors specifically drop long running connections, UDP connections, ECH connections... Chinese ISPs don't give a shit that their connections to the outside world are extremely congested at peak hours. I'm connecting to a server in South Korea, but it's so bad it drops 30% of packets at peak hours
And if you think LA is as bad as Beijing, you haven't been to Beijing
Chinese people in the US also have lower crime rates. If we had a country made up of mostly Chinese immigrants, like a Singapore or Taiwan, we'd have the crime rate of Singapore or Taiwan
Also most people have their houses financed by their parents. Apartments in Beijing cost well north of a million USD in the central areas (there are cheaper places in Beijing, but they are like one to two hours away). You're not buying it on your $3000-$4000 monthly salary.
Personally, living in China I have huge problems with connectivity to websites outside of China. Even those that don't require a VPN are just dogshit slow and work faster with a good VPN. But VPNs work sporadically and randomly something will just not load for a while.
That, combined with bad air quality, traffic jams, bad walkability, smokers smoking everywhere (including bathrooms and restaurants) makes my quality of life lower here than in the US
Of course, since the best opposing candidates went to prison. Can't elect a guy who's not running. Navalny was a very popular candidate and people would have voted for him, if they had the chance. But we won't know that because Putin killed him
The main board switch is expensive and you won't touch the performance of a dGPU