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What you say is correct. All things have variations. The Athens flat for 100 euro (though I highly doubt the price you cite) has it's equivalence somewhere in cheap cities of the US

I never said that healthcare was "bad", only that it has its problems.

Please note that I didn't say that Europe is worse, just that you'll be worse financially, which I didn't see you disproving.

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I can cite that price from personal experience :)

You said healthcare is of "questionable quality". Everything has its problems but as far as I'm concerned, healthcare in europe is top notch. You certainly don't hear about "healthcare horror stories" in europe, unlike in the US...

I'm not sure what "worse off financially" even means. It depends. For a long time I was working from home for an international company and earning far more a month than I'd need in a year. Like you said, there are equivalents in the US.

And yet you still don't disprove his point. "More than needed in a year" doesn't deny a relatively inferior financial position.

Is "working 1 month to be well off for the entire year" an inferior financial position to you?

I have news for you: for nearly the entire rest of the world, it's not. Leave your bubble for the new year, will ya?

I also am happy with my financial situation. That doesn't mean that what I said is not true. Salaries which a re "standard" in the US, like 100-150k USD are very hard to attain in Europe, working for European employers. They are certainly not "standard".

Not only is that untrue in several places (Zurich, Stockholm, Paris and until recently London) but you simply can't look at it using just the raw numbers; you have to take perks, quality of life and how much you're actually saving up into account.

Six figures is barely enough to keep up with living costs in some parts of SF, whereas in Greece it's 1-2 orders of magnitude lower depending on which part you live in.

Depends where you are. You'll probably make way more in Switzerland than in the US for equivalent positions.

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