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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They’re happier and less stressed. They have universal health care. [/quote]

This. They have a much more robust social safety net plus universal health care, paid maternity leave, and usually a fiarly good vacation. So much less stress than in the US. 
Plus more walking and more public transportation. [/quote]

Paid for with ruinous taxes, including tax policies that discourage home ownership over rental and vehicle ownership (and the concomitant freedom that brings) over mass transit that frequently is unfriendly to the disabled and regularly shut down by strikes. Significantly lower socio-economic mobility, with students put on lifetime occupational tracks comparatively early. Typically a significant emphasis on social conformity. And there’s a reason for the smaller portions. Food is more expensive. Some of that expense results in overall higher quality but not all of it.[/quote]

However, we tend to live 10 years longer than Americans, and I mean live, not confined in a bed with a feeding tube down our throats and in diapers, being used a Medicare/Medicaid cash machine. I'm European and it's a combination of being more physically active, better food quality, eating in season, no added sugars (this is huge) and smaller portions. Go pick up a loaf of bread in a normal supermarket in Europe and compare it with the ingredients from a similar product at Publix. American bread is 1/2 junk and fillers. We also have decent health insurance, including mental, so we don't need to OD on food as a proxy for meds. My H is a cardiologist and he's seeing heart disease in younger and younger people because of the metabolic disease syndrome.  Europe has very little type 2 diabetes in children. Here, Americans are killing their young with the food. [/quote]

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