The Golden Girls was the show.
I remember it well. I was in New York when Betty White (who seemed an all-round good egg) had her 90th birthday and remember President Obama making a joke on TV that he didn't believe her age since he hadn't seen her long form birth certificate.
Thats why I said, you will never achieve the "American Dream" that Hollywood created by working for someone else.
That dream seems a depression era myth in many ways. I agree that working for yourself is often better, however when I worked for Exxon, as American as it gets, some of the salaries they were getting were huge and plenty of perks too.
Detroit these days because of the migrants.
Wasn't it more about the decline of the auto industry and a laissez-faire attitude by the government that let it decline. I know a couple from Detroit who moved to Europe because their city was depopulating and there was no decent infrastructure or public transport., I can empathise since I'm from a rust belt myself (and got out to make my fortune) however things tend to be on a smaller scale there and local/central government do spend on those communities to keep them alive.
About health insurance, I pay National Insurance in the UK. Mine's a bit different since I work elsewhere and am resident in Poland, however it's normally 9% of your taxable income after personal tax-free allowance. This covers not only all medical matters (hospital billing isn't a thing there and the only 'co-pay' is on dentistry) but also sickness benefit, unemployment benefit, disability benefit, and old age pensions. It all goes into one pot to cover all of society. A bargain, and cheap at twice the price.