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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The poorest US state (Mississippi) will soon surpass the richest EU country (Germany) in GDP per capita. All other US states are ahead:

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/01/03/the-poorest-us-state-rivals-germany-gdp-per-capita-in-the-us-and-europe

I've lived in Europe before. There's an old saying: The US is a great place to be rich, and an awful place to be poor. Europe is a great place to be poor, and an awful place to be rich.
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But that statistic doesn’t address inequality. What is the median wealth/income in both places?  America has some extremely wealthy people that mask the huge number of people in poverty doing averages. [/quote]

also that  saying is outdated- any person who earns a wage  is better off in any other developed country.  I am an expat who is in Central Europe and we have mandatory insurance instead of covered healthcare and we still are better off b/c it's a functioning society and necessities aren't as expensive as the states.  I guess if I was budget  shopping at Aldi  (but we do have Aldi and  SPAR !! here) I'd find it super expensive but going from whole foods/MOMS to coop, it's perfectly fine.  I have zero desire to move back just because/c I feel like at least I have functioning infrastructure, good schooling and just a less stressful life experience here and we are saving $ b/c we basically only spend on travel.  maybe if you are a millionaire it would be harder but honestly- the highest tax brackets in the USA are only a few percentage lower and and you start self-financing stuff like schooling, concierge medicine, private  HOA infrastructure for your town/village/gated community etc. and can't really use the government provided stuff b/c it is SO bad in the USA. Here you can utilize the government stuff with self-pay medicine to get in to see a specialist  but the municipal pools, schools, hospitals etc are all really good and included in taxes.  basically we paid 5% less tax in the US than here BUT we got nothing for our taxes- schools sucked, roads sucked, no pool, bad parks comparatively speaking and had to pay for parking, nonexistent public transport so had drag kids around to activities and they can go by themselves and its completely safe.  [/quote]

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