While you wish to make it sound "not so bad" the fact is that you do pay more in taxes, and drastically much less money then for USA. 7 weeks of Vacation sounds nice, but depending on your org/work in USA, it can rival that, most FAANG, tech companies and such offer minimum 4 weeks of vacation, 20 days, which is 28 days including weekends "total."

Then many states do not have income taxes, Washington, Nevada, Florida and Texas for example.

Sales tax is also not that high, topping around 10% for the most expensive of cities, but as low as 5%.

Then on income tax, we have very favorable tax brackets that allow us to reduce our tax liabilities. Someone making 250K w/ an LLC can easily drop their bracket to as low as 13%.

As an American, we have pros. You being an European, you have pros - but if you're experienced in the game and have time - there is a reason why USA can have very favorable tax, income

Now if you talk about your public transit, rails and trains - yes I'll concede and say that is much much ahead of USA. :)