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> almost everyone I know is eyeing the exit. "almost everyone I know is eyeing the exit".. sorry, but are everyone looking to move to US/Australia? Because to
by pelasaco 4y ago
> almost everyone I know is eyeing the exit.
"almost everyone I know is eyeing the exit".. sorry, but are everyone looking to move to US/Australia? Because to Europe, the salaries are much lower than on UK, and frankly, US (specially because of healthcare, gun control, and street violence) is becoming less and less attractive, despite the amount of salary. Actually US is looking like South America: You try to earn as much as you can, not because you want, but to be able to live a safer life.
- ipaddr 4y agoSounds like you haven't been around the US much. There are cheap places and safe places to live. Stay away from the bigger liberal cities if street violence is a concern. If the US looks like South America you've fallen into a media trap. You are being sold something untrue but packaged perfectly so everyone gets paid. Where in America would you get pick pocked like south america? Disney World? The mean streets of Akron Ohio? Nonsense..
- auggierose 4y agoDowntown in any major US city is a pretty scary place.
- tatersolid 4y agoI’m in downtown Boston right now, just after being in downtown London. London is WAY scarier, and I was in the Mayfair neighborhood! Violence is not a concern for the overwhelming majority of Americans in their daily lives. EDIT: not that ANYONE should have to worry about violence in their daily lives; one just saying the US isn’t what you see in the movies or on 24x7 news.
- auggierose 4y agoBoston: 700.000 people London: 9.000.000 people That is, London is the size of New York. Just the fact that you are comparing Boston with London kind of proves my point.
- dukeyukey 4y agoI've never been to the US, but I've lived in London for nearly 6 years now. I don't think I've ever felt threatened in London, and I've been drunk in iffy neighborhoods at 3am _a lot_. What made it feel threatening to you?
- ipaddr 4y agoThe drunk iffy characters in my neighborhood at 3am
- piva00 4y agoIn South America you don't get pickpocket'ed, you get mugged. With a gun, or knife. Still, the USA does feel eerily similar to my native country (Brazil), I've lived in Brazil, the USA and Sweden, it's pretty clear how Brazil got modeled after the American way of life. You do have to work, a lot, otherwise you'll be replaced (just like in the USA); your status do matter, bigger house, bigger car, etc. (just like in the USA); you do need to earn a decent/higher wage if you want to live a comfortable and safe life (just like in the USA). So yes, life in the USA is much closer to South America than to Europe.
- pelasaco 4y agoYou are generalizing, and in some cases, comparing apples with oranges. Is NY safer than Florianopolis or is LA nicer than Piriápolis, Uruguay? I doubt. But that's not the point, but the point of wall up, gear up, move up from the city, private schools for safety, and etc.
- piva00 4y agoIs NYC safer than Florianópolis? Yup, considering there were 400-ish murders in NYC in 2022 with some 8 million people in the city proper, there were 44 in Florianópolis in 2021 with a population of 400k, double the rate of NYC per capita.
- ipaddr 4y agoThe US is not one place. From the snowy Alaska fishing towns to Hawaiian huts to Maine forest lodges to Florida condos to Desert Ranches to NYC apartments you will find Europe if you are looking. In California/NY they will tax you like a European but in Florida they won't tax your income at all
- pelasaco 4y agoLooks like you are missing the point. Akron Ohio, well guess what, there as well pretty calm cities in South America too. But that's not the point. The point is, people trying to get rich, to stay alive (buy private security, private school, private health care, better walls, etc)
- ipaddr 4y agoThe kidnapping of tourists is a South American industry, the walls try to keep that out. No one buys private security.
- bilekas 4y ago> Because to Europe, the salaries are much lower than on UK, After emigrating to central Europe I have to disagree. The salary in the UK is relative to the location so London for example is stupidly expensive to live in, so instead you commute an hour or so and still pay fairly high rent. High salaries are in the major cities, but they carry extremely high cost of living, without necessarily high standard. The salaries are actually closer than you might think once you look around of course, and the cost of living is almost always significantly less. So from my own experience overall I'm significantly in the green. > Actually US is looking like South America: You try to earn as much as you can, not because you want, but to be able to live a safer life. South America isn't all as bad as you hear on the news. You seem to have these sweeping ideas. Things usually aren't that black and white though.
- piva00 4y ago> South America isn't all as bad as you hear on the news. It might not be but as someone who's natively from Brazil I can say: it's pretty fucking rough, even more when I compare to my life in Europe/Sweden. Whenever I visit I do need to turn on my alertness to surroundings up to 11, I do need to close the car windows when I stop on a red light in a city, I do need to care about two guys riding a motorcycle and coming to the general vicinity of myself or the vehicle I'm in. Lived there for some 25 years of my life, got mugged with a gun 5 times, got mugged with a knife twice. It doesn't happen everyday but violent is so common that you are on a constant state of anxiety and alertness, it's pretty stressful to live your day-to-day like that. I also lived in the USA for a while and while you don't get the same anxiety as in South America I still felt much more stressed in the USA than I've ever been anywhere in Europe.