This argument is already refuted by the article; building is currently less expensive (often by more than half!) in Western/Northern Europe (excluding UK/Irelan

This argument is already refuted by the article; building is currently less expensive (often by more than half!) in Western/Northern Europe (excluding UK/Ireland) than in the US, and you can certainly be sure that air quality, labor laws, security and so on are not inferior in any way in Sweden or Germany compared to the US.