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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Europe is poor.  So many Americans are woefully unaware of how extremely low salaries are in Europe. Life expectancy is low in the US, but ours is also dragged down because the US deals with a lot more complicated births that'd be terminated in Europe. When kids die below 2 years old, it drags down the mean life expectancy by a lot.[/quote]

Do you get 6-8 weeks vacation a year? How many of your friends and relatives do?[/quote]

I currently have 400+ hours of vacation.

Why in the hell would I want 8 weeks vacation?  That's why Europeans are poor.  Their productivity is trash, they barely invent anything anymore, and life for them is about coasting by with your bare essentials met.  Hey, if mediocrity appeals to you, move to Europe.

All of the vacation and time off in Europe is so overrated.  The trade off are often salaries that are nearly half of what you'd get paid in the US. I don't want or need 8 weeks off. Pay me more money please, thanks. [/quote]

You know you can’t take it with you, right?  Everyone dies. No one brings their bank account to the afterworld. [/quote]

This is how bums, non-inventors, and lazy people think.  Living in the UK, for example, making $50k salary that you'd easily get paid $100k for in the US sucks.  People in Europe constantly scrape by because of extremely low salaries, stagnant exonomies, and incomes thst just never grow.  It's almost as if you missed the yellow vest protests in France.  Buy hey, at least you got 8 weeks of vacation while you're poor. [/quote]

Lol.

My European friends might live in somewhat smaller homes than most Americans (1800-2000 sq ft vs 2500) but you know what those lazy bums have that most Americans don’t? High quality building materials and fixtures. Real masonry. Solid walls and doors, not hollow. High end, better efficiency windows, not the crappy kind most American homes are built with. Sturdy, long-lasting door handles and locks that would only be found in high end custom built American home. Their bathrooms and kitchens have only high quality materials, not cheap plastic parts or low grade sinks and countertops. Their homes are built to last and are energy efficient. This is true even of friends who live in condos.

And they still get 6-8 weeks off a year. Plus they never worry about a medical crisis driving them to bankruptcy.

Poor lazy bums!
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This is actually backwards.  American houses have excellent insulation and people live through the winter.  In Europe, houses lack insulation and people die every winter from cold.

http://globalag.igc.org/health/world/cold.htm

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/cold-weather-uk-winter-deaths-europe-polar-vortex-a8224276.html

https://jech.bmj.com/content/57/10/784

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Some folks in TX died during the freeze last winter. Their houses weren't insulated for the freeze.  Several died in their homes due to hypothermia.[/quote]

Over 1300 people die in cold houses in London yearly.  Ireland, Portugal and Spain all have high numbers of cold death in the winter.

They build lousy houses in Europe.  [/quote]
I guess TX does, too.[/quote]

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