You have very high taxes to pay for it all and some unions can hold the country hostage (rail strikes). Unemployment is higher because employers are slow to hire because it is so hard to fire anyone and you have less pressure to work.

Nobody tells me what books I can and cannot read

There is no such restriction here. Just because a few local small town libraries complain and get a lot of media attention you can still buy and read anything.

I can express whichever sexuality I was born with

It is protected legally here also.