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Quality food is more expensive, day care is very expensive too. It is also understood that you should build up your own retirement fund. Phones and internet a
by dudul 9y ago
Quality food is more expensive, day care is very expensive too. It is also understood that you should build up your own retirement fund. Phones and internet access is very expensive compared to most european countries.
And just to clarify, it's always weird to say "in Europe". We're talking about close to 30 countries that have big differences between each other. My XP is mostly with western and northern Europe. I have visited but never lived in eastern Europe for example.
- bpicolo 9y ago> Quality food is more expensive The United States (as a whole) spends less of a % of income on food than any other country
- dudul 9y agoquality was the keyword here. Yes people spend less on average, but the quality of what they buy is awful. I lived 20 years in various countries of the EU and 10 in the US. Based on my XP it is more expensive in the US to get the same quality that's it. I don't have data or fancy metrics to back it up, it's just my empirical observation :)
- k__ 9y agoYes, I read Walmart failed in Germany, because we simply expected food to be too damn cheap :)