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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, you have to consider lifestyle and culture which PP have mentioned.  You cannot compare their lives to ours.  We live in completely different worlds and cultures.

The kind of lifestyle we "need" and enjoy and want here in the US is really different from almost the rest of the world.  You can be very happy on little if that's all you've ever known.  But also, quality is important.  Remember, quality is $$ here but quality is not as $$ in other parts of the world because they just don't have 100 options for one thing.  Culturally, we consume, other people simply live :)

I always say - it's absolutely not just taxes.  You think it's taxes that differentiate us from Europe but it's not.  We pay "less" but get less in return.  You have to look at apples to apples and if you do that,[b] they actually get better ROI than we do on taxes.[/b]  But more than that, it's lifestyle and culture for sure.[/quote]

This is debatable. The tax burden can be huge in European countries.  Salaries are very limited.  It’s shocking really.

Someone living in a MCOL city sending their kid to state colleges and with employer provided health insurance is absolutely ahead.

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