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[quote=Anonymous]Living in the US from a standard of living perspective costs ungodly $$$.  Yes there's opportunity and yes you can make money here but if you started life on the wrong side of the tracks it's super duper hard to get to the "good" life.  You may not be as poor as living in a hut but it's def not an easy life because it is indeed the "rat race" you will be living.

Unless you are actually in a slum somewhere literally, you are not "better" off in the US.

Unless you have tons of energy, desire, ambition and some luck, life in the US is harder than anywhere else that you're not homeless or persecuted in.  Why? Because this is one of the richest countries in the world. Thus, you gotta make more than average in order to find comfort here.

So what I mean is if you take a look at who comes to the US it's either those on refugee status or those who are 10000% capable of working their asses off 24/7.  These days are different from the old days when you could actually make your own opportunities here.

These days you better be awesome at sales and marketing and extroverted enough to own your own business or you aren't gonna strike it rich here - life is too expensive esp with a family.   Working at that corp job without any sort of family money, cushion, savings or big funds is not going to earn you the "good" life.  You could side hustle but with Internet you would be better off side hustling and living a less expensive standard of living in a less expensive country so you save more.

You can't actually retire here early unless you've made millions since there's no national healthcare plan.  There's no robust parental leave that supports you when you start a family working for most companies .  There's no good education unless you shell out a ton of $$$ for it upfront or if school loan, yep you'll have to make even more money to settle your debt! All these you have in place in other countries civilized countries.

This country is for extroverted sales marketing oriented folks with either means or a top tier ambitious streak and I do mean top tier :) It's just too expensive here in the US to do it otherwise. That's really what it's about - less that there's no opportunity but how to survive until you're able to leverage it!

You can certainly made more money here to send back home to poorer family there which is what 75% of most immigrants do but you're purpose isn't to live some sort of fairy tale life then, it's to ensure your family is taken care off, and that priority differs from the "American dream."

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