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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have friends who make 1-3 million a year in biglaw, finance, running various businesses etc but I’m not jealous of any of them .

Meanwhile I know people making 10-20% that amount in France, NL, and Switzerland and they have jealousy inducing lives

I don’t know if all the work and money made by my friends in dc/nyc translate into real QoL gains.

Europe has a lot of problems but there is a huge disconnect in the us [/quote]

We have winners and losers here in the US, that's for sure.  I figure as long as me and mine can stay on the right side of that divide, I'm fine with being in the USA. It's more vibrant and dynamic if you ask me, but it's definitely not fo everyone.

As a slight aside, do you remember the article awhile back about the large number of unemployed women in the Netherlands?  And a commission there looked into it because they assumed it was due to discrimination, but they wound up concluding that, nope, huge numbers of women didn't want to work and were perfectly happy not working.  :lol:  [/quote]

Yep! I remember that. Dutch women are some of the laziest in the developed world. Huge part-time culture.

But they are also taller, thinner, healthier than American women so I don’t think we are the ones #winning

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