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by smnrchrds 2007 days ago
Combination of high income and low cost of living is ever elusive. We saw the dream get a glimmer of hope with remote work, only to be soon crushed by CoL adjustment announcements. You would be hard-pressed to find, anytime in history and anywhere on planet earth, a time and place where salaries are really high and CoL is really low.
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>You would be hard-pressed to find, anytime in history and anywhere on planet earth, a time and place where salaries are really high and CoL is really low.

US, Germany and most of western europe in the post war boom till the late 80's.

A factory assembly worker at VW could buy an apartment and feed his family on a single income back then. Fat chance of doing anything like that now.