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As an European, I dread this. Americans are not the best negotiators and some even seem to be OK with being overcharged, raising prices of all sorts up. At the
by jbirer 4y ago
As an European, I dread this. Americans are not the best negotiators and some even seem to be OK with being overcharged, raising prices of all sorts up. At the same time, I myself am planning to move to Asia because it's getting expensive here. Good luck.
- rahimnathwani 4y ago"Americans are not the best negotiators" There are 300m Americans. They vary widely in their approach to negotiation. Some of the best books about negotiation are by Americans.
- t6jvcereio 4y agoThis is one way to spot a small minded European. "Americans are X", "Americans do Y"....
- cko 4y agoI think what they're trying to say is "people who have high purchasing power get a bit excited by the relatively low prices and don't bother to negotiate." Though I think it's less of negotiation skill and more of unfamiliarity with the market. This gets fixed quickly one year in, in my experience. When I first moved from the US to Romania, I was offered a studio apartment for 300 euro a month. I thought it was super cheap and signed immediately. Little did I know I overpaid by a lot. This hurts the locals, who start getting priced out of the market.
- sschueller 4y agoI just hope these aren't the same America's that voted to get their country/state into such a situation. Although I see way more Europeans adoring the American "freedoms" and trying to turn Europe more American.
- injb 4y agoCould you elaborate on how American "freedom" has led to a housing crisis there? Is this situation correlated with an increase in whatever you are calling "freedom"?
- harambae 4y agoThe areas most severely overpriced in America (university education, medical care, housing) actually have massive government involvement, and in my opinion that's not a coincidence. Of course there's legitimate reasons and benefits for some of that involvement, but maybe the pendulum needs to swing back a bit.
- housedrafta 4y agoThe European countries with good healthcare and education actually have their governments play a central role. How do you think Germans afford university? It's the type of government involvement you take issue with.
- sschueller 4y agoBy "freedom" I mean the lack of government regulations and controls allowing companies to "freely" abuse workers etc. Same goes for banks not being held accountable for bad deals and knowing they are too big to fail. Or that a large company that has committed a crime can opt for deferred prosecution (because it would hurt too many people if they were held accountable) only to have the whole thing dismissed years later or fined a tiny fine.
- Arubis 4y agoMany of us are the Americans that have been desperately trying to vote our country out of this situation for our adult lives, and are tired.
- Aromasin 4y agoThat's been largely the impression I've got from my US friends who moved to the UK. They're all fed up off the political situation and decided to leave. Then they get here and realised they should have flown about 200 miles East
- t6jvcereio 4y agoAs a European, I wish Europe was a bit more like America in some respects. Namely, seeing the embarrassing way how Europe has responded to Russia's aggression has for the first time made me question my staunch europeism.
- injb 4y agoSuppose for the sake of argument that Americans were no better or worse at negotiating that anyone else. What do you expect would happen to the prices then, with the current influx of Americans?
- rini17 4y agoMost of them will likely end up in few hotspots causing gentrification there, but there will be plenty of fine places left. Europe isn't _that_ small.
- more_corn 4y agoAs an Asian I dread this. Europeans are not the best negotiators and seem to be ok with being overcharged, raising prices of all sorts. :-p