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For most tech workers in the US, there is no EU country where: salary - EU taxes + Social Welfare Benefits > salary - US taxes - US healthcare - US retirement

For most tech workers in the US, there is no EU country where: salary - EU taxes + Social Welfare Benefits > salary - US taxes - US healthcare - US retirement My employer routinely sends me to Frankfurt/Brussels/Paris. There are no local engineers doing what I am doing who have a higher standard of living than I do-- and I'm only middle of the road here in the US. Of course, the reality is completely different for almost every other career field but no amount of free healthcare makes up for the fact that I earn, at a minimum, 2x the amount an aerospace engineer in Paris does. Also, the safety of the US is highly variable. In my area the gravest and most obscene crime that has occurred in the last five years was some teens spray painting "420 every day" on the dumpster behind the elementary school.

ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
The aerospace engineers are in Toulouse.
HaixuanTao 4y ago
> salary - EU taxes + Social Welfare Benefits > salary - US taxes - US healthcare - US retirement This is true if nothing really bad happens to you and your family ( car accident, really bad decease, ... ). France will have much better social security for tail risk. This equation is not deterministic. It works on majority of cases, but having the peace of mind of feeling safe, is worth a lot to me. Tail risk also compounds the bigger your family is. I am very grateful that my parent will have lifetime free Healthcare, hassle-free retirement, even though this comes at a 50% income tax + social security.