FairIsleEngineer

Exactly.

I think you're forgetting that the United States was ahead of much of the world developing our economy and therefore our infrastructure is also older. It wasn't that many decades ago that our infrastructure was heads and tails above and thevenvy of some of the countries that you are listing. Our population density is often lower so it costs more per capita to keep up on infrastructure maintenance than it does in a more densely populated country.