Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Fun to visit. Would live in some (almost did a couple times) if I could get transferred there for a few years with my US employer.
Might even live part time in Europe in retirement.
But that's easy for me to say, I've already achieved some success here... I sure wouldn't want to be starting out at age 18 over there, nothing like the same opportunities as in the US. Most especially if you have any entrepreneurial bent.
Notice they always disregard that they'd be making pennies on the dollar for the same type of work as they do here. It's always a convenient excuse, but the reality is that Americans who do actually want to move overseas do so readily.
What's actually happening is that they're engaging in luxury beliefs - virtue signal online but never follow through, because implicitly they know that if they did they would have to live with the real life consequences of following the ideas they support. I.e - super high taxes, low wages, economic stagnation, waiting months for routine medical work.