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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Before you get all excited about national healthcare check on waiting times for things. [/quote]

Sorry, you're not scaring anyone, Fox News.  US Healthcare is gutter trash bottom of the barrel trash that makes the entire country unliveable.  Number of countries that wish they had a HC system like the US: 0. [/quote]

+1 We see the horror stories and outliers but ignore the vast majority of times that it works smoothly and as it should in other countries, for much less $$ and insurance company middleman profit. I don't want to emigrate to have that. I want to have that here. We deserve that here for all our tax money. Also no guns. [/quote]

I know most people posting in favor of living outside the US are more upset at a certain administration than the actual realities of life in America. I have lived both in the US and in several countries overseas for many (many!) years so I have no rosy lens about life outside the US. I lived in the UK, Germany, Dubai and Singapore for a collective 15 years and another 10 years of adulthood in the US so I'm not ignorant to the pros and cons. Just don't fall into the trap of thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. The UK, for example, has substantial problems with their overburdened national health system to the point that many regular people are paying cash for quick visits to doctors instead of having to wait months and even over a year for an appointment. Even countries with excellent healthcare like Switzerland still have waiting lists and believe it or not - I know people who moved back to the US after working in Switzerland for 10+ years because in retirement it was easier and quicker to rely on US healthcare than the rationed Swiss healthcare. The US healthcare system is a mess but on the flip side it is also extremely generous and proactive in ways most countries' systems are not. And people still often have private healthcare in many developed countries.

Culturally, mass migration has become a major tension point across all of Europe, in part of the burdens on the welfare state. Housing costs are very expensive in most of the major cities across Europe, the US is much more affordable. US also has a much better racial integration compared to the rest of the developed countries. There are some things European countries can do better, food is a bit cheaper, yes, transportation/housing tends to be more expensive and salaries are also lower, often substantially lower... so....

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The people with the grass-is-greener-other-side will be in for some difficult times if they uproot just as some of your grandparents/great grandparents + did when they moved to the great US of A. Good luck. [/quote]

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