You can get hired by a Silicon Valley company that have a presence in Europe. You won't get a salary as high as Silicon Valley itself but it will still be much

You can get hired by a Silicon Valley company that have a presence in Europe. You won't get a salary as high as Silicon Valley itself but it will still be much higher that other companies, and the work will be pretty similar. However I think you're mistaken about quality of life between US and Europe (I've lived in both) or it really depends what country you're talking about. First of all you're talking about standard of living - and it's not lower at least in western Europe (Germany, France, UK, etc...) It's similar to US. Regarding quality of life, I'd argue that it's higher in Europe because of health care, better work balance, better town planning, etc. You're talking about car ownership like it's an indicator of quality of life, on the contrary we have a single car in my family even though we can definitely afford a second car and I couldn't be more happy to be able to live without taking my car for every single trip.