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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the size of their homes, their furniture choices, their kitchens. Look at their cars (or lack of cars). You have your answer.

It costs a lot of money to have a gourmet kitchen, a 3k foot house, two new cars, landscaping, travel soccer fees, competitive dance fees, and flights to Europe and the Caribbean. It costs less money to have a 1k foot apartment or row home, two bikes, no yard, and a tiny induction stove. [/quote]

Do you think Europeans don't travel or do activities or cook?

They do! But in lots of places they pay less for childcare, healthcare, and yes have smaller homes and transit options which are healthy and more affordable.[/quote]

Of course they travel but they aren’t regularly taking vacations with long flights (at least not most of them and not 2-3 per year). They can get to places by train and by short cheap flights way easier than Americans can. And of course they cook, my point was they don’t have 200k “chefs kitchens” with 15k Wolf ranges and 2 dishwashers and two paneled fridges and marble countertops. American kitchens are ridiculous status symbols. [/quote]

Exactly.  This is the whole point of the thread.  They cook a lot more than Americans do, on average (I'm guessing) and they manage to do so with much smaller kitchens.  Ikea is a Swedish company and all about small space efficiency -- because that's ultimately the Scandinavian market.  [/quote]

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