[zhirafovod]

Housing:

* European way - build centrally design urban cities, with infrastructure, schools, public transportation, community spaces, recreation/business spaces.

* American way - let for-profit developers build luxury houses around enormous google/fb/other tech giant campuses, and let struggling communities to figure out how to live with it...

Medical care:

* European way - build an efficient medical system which is paid by taxes, affordable to everyone.

* American way - let medical system to be a for profit business and put a burden of medical insurance for all on the medium income population and let them figure it out

Good news on the housing - the companies reached the plato of the salaries for the bay area employees and many actively moving to the other urban areas which should spread the stress from the bay area. Its is 21st century, and if a company can't establish an effective distributed collaboration processes, it does not deserve to be a leader in high tech space.

[int_19h]

On healthcare, this isn't true simply because of how drastically different approaches are across Europe. There are countries there that have something a lot like ACA, just better implemented (Switzerland). There are countries with true single payer nationalized systems (UK). There are countries where healthcare is run by a bunch of private non-profit coops for most people, but those who want to can opt out into a fully private system (Germany). These all work much better than what US has, but not all of them are paid entirely or even mostly by taxes.

[zhirafovod]

yeah, I've exaggerated a bit with the comparison, thanks for correcting. I think it will be right to say, that a decent medical care is a right, not a privilege, in most of the European countries. And the private hospitals come to play when you want a premium services. But even then you know the price list most of the services, or it is all included for a reasonable price.

In either case, I see quite a different approach - attempt to provide social oriented services by just relaying the problems on the working population, instead of owning the problem and solving the proper way.