better life
- improvementPositive change in quality
- happinessJoyful emotional state
- prosperityGood fortune, success
- successFavorable outcome attained
- wellnessOverall state of health
fulfillment · thriving · upgrade · comfort · freedom · opportunity · growth · health · wealth · contentment · fresh start · dream · aspiration · security · abundance · progress · hope · change
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- upward mobilitypromotion, raise, rise, advancement, upward mobility
- AmericanaAmerican flag, Fourth of July, bald eagle, Thanksgiving, apple pie
quality of existence
better lifedownward spiral
Self-reinforcing deterioration
hardship · poverty · destitution · misery · squalor
aspiration vs. resignation
better lifehopelessness
State without hope
despair · decline · downfall · deterioration · giving up
material/social circumstances
better lifepoverty
Severe lack of resources
destitution · squalor · deprivation · hardship · struggle