EU citizens generally pay much higher taxes, and get better retirement benefits for a wider variety of jobs, many of which would not be a career path that would

EU citizens generally pay much higher taxes, and get better retirement benefits for a wider variety of jobs, many of which would not be a career path that would have a good benefit package in the States. And insurance that's not coupled with your employer. The flaunting of wealth also isn't exactly culturally as strong as it is in the States. My plan in the States -- in all seriousness -- is to be the local mountain hermit. I'll live semi-permanently in some hidden shack, I'll come down to town for odd jobs, hands-outs. Fringes of society for me.