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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t want to watch that stupid YouTube video — can someone summarize?[/quote]

A guy doing man in the street interviews in London. One American, the rest British. All expressing surprise as most thought the UK would be in the top ten if it were a state. One women guessed the bottom 25% and said Americans like working more than the British.

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The average European is fed anti-American news stories nonstop. Even if it is better here, they will never come to that conclusion.

I had six month maternity leave but European friends don’t believe me. It simply isn’t possible. Same with me going on a long vacation.

I told them my salary (around $300k) when they weirdly asked me, and their response was that healthcare is surely making up the difference. As if a healthy 40 year old woman pays $150k per year in healthcare. They had never even known someone making that much money and these are people with advanced degrees. [/quote]

Fantastic! So glad to hear lots of American workers now get six months maternity leave. [/quote]

We have lots of Europeans in our neighborhood and I’ve talked to them about their decision to come here.  It’s pretty obvious — America has more lows and highs, whereas Europe is more evened out.  If you’re a highly educated, highly skilled person, you’ll probably do better in the American labor market versus European.  The people I know mostly have phds in hard science.  But if you are working or middle class, you probably do better in most European countries where you don’t have to worry so much about paying for your kids healthcare pr your mom’s elder care or your kids college education or what happens when your car breaks down, etc.

I guess we’ll see what war in Europe and the collapse of nato does to all of that.  It’s certainly true that America did really well when Europe was struggling to recover from the ravages of war, and Europe really struggled in those years.[/quote]

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