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If you've spent much time at all in pretty much any European country you would know how much better the general quality of life is than in USA, even/especially
by pbreit 7y ago
If you've spent much time at all in pretty much any European country you would know how much better the general quality of life is than in USA, even/especially amongst the poor.
I'm not sure consumption is the best metric.
- goatlover 7y agoBut Europe doesn't represent most of the world's population or land area.
- gingabriska 7y agoIt's not my experience. Which countries specifically are you talking about? Countries in East Europe can have lower quality of life, mostly depends on your income.
- pbreit 7y agoWestern & Northern, for sure.
- allworknoplay 7y agoNo, it's a crazy metric. We consume vastly more healthcare, for example. Is that wealth? This article is insane, and the site has an extraordinarily clear (and manifest) right-wing bias.
- wil421 7y agoIf Europe has such a better quality of life than the US then why are the immigration stats so skewed in the US’s favor? About 3x as many Europeans immigrate to the US than the other way around.[1] These numbers only look at Western Europe, if you added the whole continent it would be a much larger gap. It would be 2 million more if you add Eastern Europe. [1]https://mises.org/wire/3-times-many-europeans-move-us-other-way-around https://mises.org/wire/3-times-many-europeans-move-us-other-...
- TheCoelacanth 7y ago1. Western Europeans mostly speak the language in the US, so they have an easy time living there, while most Americans only speak English so would have a harder time living in most of Europe. 2. The US is great for people in upper income brackets who can actually manage to migrate, not so much for the lower income people who can't.
- JAlexoid 7y agoI'd facepalm, but I'm afraid that the force of my facepalm would open a wormhole to another dimension. Have you read the ignorant article? I suggest that you check the quality of life of the top contributors to the migration from Western Europe in the 90ies. You'll notice that Ireland was a very poor country up until the Celtic Tiger era, and there was an active guerilla warfare happening. If you want a little bit of actual recent data - https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/lpr_population_estimates_january_2015.pdf https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/lpr_pop... The number of permanent residents from EU: United Kingdom 280k (50k of them recent immigrants) Germany 170k (20k of recent immigrants) Poland 130k (30k of them are recent immigrants) Others are less than 100k. Recent immigrants are people that have an LPR and aren't eligible to be naturalized yet - less than 3 or 5 years residing in US.
- pbreit 7y agoMore immigration-friendly and better marketing.
- adventured 7y agoThat premise only holds water if you ignore the bottom 50% of Europe, which includes Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Belarus, etc. Between Russia and Ukraine there are 190 million people. The bottom half of those people are living in third world conditions. Russia is Europe's largest nation. In the villages of Western Russia, you've got a lack of access to even basic medical supplies. Doctors are earning $200-$300 per month, they're aging out of the system, and they can't find nurses period - "Putin’s Health-Care Cuts Spark Protests in Russian Heartland" "The country has 100 billionaires, and yet more than a third of Russians can’t afford to buy two pairs of shoes a year." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-07/putin-s-health-care-cuts-spark-protests-in-russian-heartland https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-07/putin-s-h...