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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My BIL is a medical doctor in stockholm. His wife works high up at a big tech company (well there are almost no legit tech companies in europe but it is the european subsidiary of a big US company). They can barely afford a condo in the suburbs of stockholm with two bedrooms thanks to terrible government planning, socialist intervention and a near zero supply of places to live. So if you would like to be in  the kind of place where a tech executive and surgeon call a two bedroom, 70 year old condo "a great lifestyle," then I guess Sweden is the place for you.[/quote]

Lol yeah America is just awash is affordable housing!!

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It's awash in affordable housing for a couple who are a tech exec and surgeon NO MATTER where you live.[/quote]

That’s what socialism does.  It makes life harder for a highly educated couple with good jobs.  You have to pay for all of these benefits for the masses.  I have many friends in Northern European countries and they are all well educated with good jobs.  Their lifestyles and QOL are all worse than comparable couples here in the US.  The COL of similar to living in Manhattan except they live in mid-tier cities you’ve likely never even heard of.  They mostly eat at home, live in small homes or apartments, have one car, vacation in Spain, both couples work, send their kids to large daycares.  In comparison the American couples have Nannies, live in larger homes, multiple cars, similar vacation time, wife wouldn’t have to work if they scaled back.

There are a lot of factors driving this though.  Lower worker productivity, less innovation, less access to capital markets, fewer natural resources, currency risk etc.  [/quote]

Perhaps you might consider that having larger homes, more expensive vacations, nannies, and multiple cars does not make people happy. Those happiness surveys reflect a sense of contentment and security rather than DCUM's version of the good life as reflected in cars, vacations, and the square footage of homes.[/quote]

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