My mother, aunts, cousins and uncles have also issued complaints similar to those of Plan_D; in somewhat milder terms though. I´ve seen it happening as well.
I agree the conduct of a real large number of young people in the so-called First World is simply deranging. Add both legal and illegal immigration and the soup can really begin tasting nasty.
(For example, while staying here I have had the chance of seeing these real large group of people known as "spring-breakers" as they flood most mexican beaches; i am sure many parents from the U.S.A. would die immediately of a heart attack if they could see what their progenie do when they are not home.)
The vast majority of all First World nations -if not all of them- are certainly going through similar processes. (i.e. The USA and the tide of illegal immigrants from Mexico, central and south america; Australia; the European Union, etc.)
Now, Europe. Poor Europe.
I have serious doubts regarding the future of Europe. Although I do not use superlative terms to describe cities or nations, i do not believe neither in heaven nor hell when it comes to life conditions offered by any community, village, town, city or country. Mexico City offers me good things I will never find in Moscow, and viceversa.
Still, there is this possibility that the future of Europe could be somewhat blacker than apparently perceived by most people.
See, most people from the USA, Canada and western Europe, for instance, might perceive Mexico as hell on earth: poverty, utter corruption, crime, impunity, dirty cities...blah, blah, blah...but you know something? The people in this country enjoy a level of freedom the people of USA and, say, France or Germany can not even dream of.
No wonder i´ve been meeting a massive number of russian kids my age arriving in Mexico to stay (many of them after having had a taste of the real "American Dream").
Wildact is very correct in his comment: there are no perfect places; each of them having problems of differents kinds and for different causes.
(I believe there are paradises on earth though; they, however, cease to be paradises immediately after the first group of human beings arrive and decide to settle there. A paradise just got thrashed.)
Where there are human beings there are no paradises.
Now, back to the future Europe...there is this particular fact that I find totally amusing when I am in Europe:
Hearing and watching Germans complaining and issuing racist insults against Turks and other immigrants (those with brown skin or asian eyes).
How come this particular behavior is amusing? Simple, when you know of birth rates among "original Germans". See statistics. All you can do is laugh hard, real hard.
What have those "white Germans" -the pure ones- done in that particular department to help their nation? The response -which includes the majority of Germans-: NOTHING. ZERO. NULL.
So when they complain about their cities being flooded with immigrants all one can do is to laugh and laugh, real hard.ç
Utterly simple: nations require people in order to function as such. The state, a sovereign state, has duties to fulfill: internal security, social security, highways, judicial system, etc, etc. So, if the "locals" refuse to have children, then guess what clovis? People from elsewhere must be brought, and the possibility of these people having different religions, traditions, tastes and cultural backgrounds is real high if not the rule.
If a percentage of the population -a very significant one- refuses to reproduce themselves in such a manner the demographics of your nation will unavoidably get hit, then the government of your nation has critical issues to deal with.
I have had the chance of staying in Germany for a few months three or four times during my life. The majority of the German grown ups are a massive herd of loners...boring, depressing, unhappy people on this planet.
A large number of German men and women (those "original" Germans, the ones with white skin) simply REFUSED to have any children. The sole idea of raising a family has been rejected there. For whatever reason. Period.
A very similar thing is happening in Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia, Belgium and France; also the spanish people are following a very similar path. (Funny to know of the Belgians angry at knowing the most common name for 3 consecutive years in the Register Office is precisely "Muhammad".)
So what can one think of a people, the people of a nation, that have simply REFUSED to reproduce themselves and continue being the people they are allegedly proud of being?
Is there a future for a people that reject the idea of reproducing themselves?
Who knows...probably yes, probably not; time will tell for sure.