Imagine how we appear 134 years later

"I fear I cannot picture America as altogether an Elysium—perhaps,
from the ordinary standpoint I know but little about the country.
I cannot give its latitude or longitude; I cannot compute the value
of its dry goods, and I have no very close acquaintance with its
politics. These are matters which may not interest you, and they
certainly are not interesting to me.
The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that
if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the
world, they are the most comfortably dressed. Men are seen there
with the dreadful chimney-pot hat, but there are very few hatless
men; men wear the shocking swallowtail coat, but few are to be
seen with no coat at all. There is an air of comfort in the
appearance of the people which is a marked contrast to that seen
in this country, where, too often, people are seen in close contact
with rags.
The next thing particularly noticeable is that everybody seems
in a hurry to catch a train. This is a state of things which is not
favourable to poetry or romance. Had Romeo or Juliet been in a
constant state of anxiety about trains, or had their minds been
agitated by the question of return-tickets, Shakespeare could not
have given us those lovely balcony scenes which are so full of
poetry and pathos.
America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is
waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale,
but by the steam whistle. It is surprising that the sound practical
sense of the Americans does not reduce this intolerable noise. All
Art depends upon exquisite and delicate sensibility, and such
(Oscar Wilde-
Impressions of America 1882)