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Professional opportunity or quality of life, most likely. Nowhere else even comes close to the US in terms of professional and economic opportunity.
by aikinai 10mo ago
Professional opportunity or quality of life, most likely. Nowhere else even comes close to the US in terms of professional and economic opportunity.
- 4gotunameagain 10mo agoIn terms of professional and economic opportunity, sure, but in terms of quality of life half of the European countries eclipse the US.
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- cherryteastain 10mo agoCountries like Denmark, Switzerland or Netherlands indeed offer very good quality of life but the language barrier is substantial. Tons of people know English as a second language and almost no one knows, say, Danish as a second language.
- 4gotunameagain 10mo agoOh I didn't mean americans should come over. Please don't. Deal with your mess instead of extending it here.
- JuniperMesos 10mo ago> Deal with your mess instead of extending it here. This is exactly the justification for all the anti-immigration policies, the idea that immigrants from foreign countries have extended the mess that is in their home countries to the United States, and the only way to prevent it is to prevent those people from having the right to settle permanently in the United States.
- mlrtime 10mo agoOh I didn't mean [Mexicans] should come over. Please don't. Deal with your mess instead of extending it here [US].
- mlrtime 10mo agoAnd there is the fact that countries like Denmark are tightening up immigration even tighter than the US. The EU countries that tried a more open boarder quickly realized how it can spiral out of control.
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- sys_64738 10mo agoThat's entirely subjective for sure. The USA is a continent sized country and not a one-size-fits-all like most European countries. Each state should be viewed as its own European sized country with its own warts and all. You will have some backwater, inbred states like AL, MS and GA but places like CA or New England or NY are just eons above anything Europe has to offer. Again, it's all subjective.
- 4gotunameagain 10mo agoWhat I'm hearing about CA and NY is 10hr work days if you're lucky, 2/3 jobs to make ends meet if you're not, and absurd rents. It is true that it is probably better in the US if you're privileged, but then again it's good everywhere if you're privileged. The difference is in the quality of life of the average person.
- sys_64738 10mo ago> What I'm hearing about CA and NY is 10hr work days if you're lucky, 2/3 jobs to make ends meet if you're not, and absurd rents. All these things can be said about most countries you'd want to live in nowadays.
- 4gotunameagain 10mo agoNope, not for half of Europe and that's my entire point.
- vee-kay 10mo agoHealthcare in USA is a nightmare, from almost every perspective. But a lot of countries like Canada, EU nations and other developed countries (and even in developing nations like India) have free or affordable healthcare systems. So, at least from a healthcare metric, most of these nations trump USA (pun intended, since Trump scrapped or crippled Obamacare, which itself wasn't a full-fledged solution to the healthcare crisis prevalent in USA).
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- mlrtime 10mo agoThen why don't EU countries have the same demand for citizenship as the US? (I don't have numbers, maybe there is?)