> I've met a number of young western Europeans while traveling there who are jealous of the ability of Americans to afford cross-ocean/different-continent multi-week trips to tier-1-hotel-cost cities, while feeling like it's more out of reach to them to find a job that would let them.

Anecdotally, I think it’s out of reach for many young Americans in my cohort (26) but we’re insulated from that in tech