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They also raised the retirement age past 70. It's a clear signal for wagies to know their place and not to get any ambition of financial independence.

I've got a little girl that just started school, which complicates things, but I'm really reconsidering my future in the country.

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You'd be better even In France. I'm here in Spain watching this closely, as this would be over for me.

I'm not sure how confident I'd be, moving to a country that runs a constant 5% deficit. I work remotely, so my employer wouldn't care, but wouldn't cover the difference in employer contributions, which are substantial. That'd mean lowering my gross salary by something like 40k.

Spain is actually the place I'm considering, especially with the Beckham law and the fact that I speak the language.

Spain also runs in a constant deficit and they are emitting debt to cover operational expenses.

The pension system is the elephant in the room.

I don't understand why people allow so easily the increase of retirement age. I don't see the millenials in old age receiving any better healthcare as boomers are receiving right now. Stereotypical good public healthcare exists even in EU maybe only in 5-6 countries, in the rest it's 100 EUR for 5 minutes of doctor's attention.

Its simply impossible for most people to go to university, only enter the job market by 25 retiring by 65 and then live 20 years on retirement when you have an increasingly aging population at the same time.

> I don't see the millenials in old age receiving any better healthcare as boomers are receiving right now.

Questionable, the medical field is progressing. Also we have many things like smoking that are much less common in millennials and even less after that. That should lead to longer health.

Again, all progress in medicine goes into private sector even in most of the EU countries, or is available only through some form of bribes and connections. I read about the progress in medicine the same as I read science fiction about extraterrestrial life and faster-than-light travel because the only healthcare available to me is 100 EUR for 5 minutes of doctor's attention.

They go first to private medicine, like literally every new innovation. But new technology is consistently getting rolled out. Late live quality has increased. Caner 5 year survival rates have increased. Live expectancy has generally increased.

The claim that out of 20+ countries only 5-6 are not totally corrupt and its impossible to get a doctor visit is simply not true.

> Caner 5 year survival rates have increased.

Without acquaintances and bribes you learn about your cancer at the "you'll die in one month" stage.

> The claim that out of 20+ countries only 5-6 are not totally corrupt and its impossible to get a doctor visit is simply not true.

Easily 20 countries. Certainly every post Communist country. Developed countries [1] eagerly join the shameful club given a slightest opportunity. Countries with generally good healthcare have regions with post Communist level of fraud and corruption, e.g. former eastern Germany in Germany, southern Italy. Covid era was specifically unprecedented negative impulse.

[1] https://www.today.it/cronaca/medico-8-milioni-contanti-napol...

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