It's good money for a reason. In France, you don't pay US prices for daycare for your children, you don't have to save up to send your children to university,

It's good money for a reason. In France, you don't pay US prices for daycare for your children, you don't have to save up to send your children to university, and so on. This sort of comparison is difficult to do well. Say you compare Paris with Los Angeles. Should you include a car since that's necessary in one of the cities you compare, or leave it out since living in the other without a car is perfectly reasonable?