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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty sure if you have a dinner party of 55+ aged Americans they would be similar. Relaxed, looking forward to retirement, focused on family, talking about travel, etc. If you speak to, especially French, people in their late 20s-early 30s they are they have the same burdens as Americans. Work, pension age keeps rising (did you see Paris burning this summer?), access to good health care, complaining about politics. It is more generational than anything else. In fact it is pretty amazing how similar the generations are even though their nationality is completely different. [/quote] This. I mean, normal people wouldn’t kvetch about stress, work, health ailments, etc. at a dinner party—especially with a mixed group. And money, weight, work, and politics are rarely polite dinner party conversations. How everyone looks: I would expect everyone to dress up and put on their best face/hair game for a dinner party. Having said that, I do international work and I can report that the rest of the world takes more vacation time than Americans. In fact, they seem to travel all the time and they’ve been everywhere. And they simply aren’t like the driven Type A people in the DC metro area—even the mission driven ones. But they also don’t make the same progress we do. They just don’t. Re: healthcare - Lol. European universal healthcare isn’t playing a role in privileged people’s daily lives. You’re either stricken with debilitating health issues or not. At least in the US you can buy excellent health care and get treatment quickly. My biggest takeaway from decades of working with colleagues and counterparts abroad and observing lifestyles: both have stressors related to cost of living but Americans seem pressed to buy more/have more. Others seem to live more simply like minimalists and invest in living (eg, travel, nice dinners, going out with friends, entertaining). American homes are dramatically bigger and have more things. Ditto for cars. But overall, people are pretty much the same in Europe—particularly if they are the same age group and same financial demographic. PS - Just because someone is thin and tan doesn’t mean they are healthy. You can eyeball who is on medication or in pain. Plenty of healthy looking people are taken out by cancer or a heart attack. It’s all a crapshoot. [/quote]
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