| Are the (significantly) higher salaries worth it? Higher?? You'd have to be joking. When most people need several jobs to make ends meet? When there is no single-payer health-care for the average joe? When a brief visit to an emergency room will set you back thousands. And if you don't have a job, it's very probable that you won't have any health insurance either. In other countries, a you can have a triple cardiac bypass for zero out-of-pocket expenses. When people have very little paid holiday leave per year, if at all? In some countries, they get four to six weeks holiday per year, paid at normal (or higher) wage rates. When waiters and waitresses have to survive on what tips they get, instead of getting a reasonable living wage and tips are extra on top.? When many roads, bridges, schools, hospitals are in bad states of disrepair because there is no money for the infrastructure? When many of the country's airports look like 1960s hangovers from the third-world. Have you seen modern airports in the Middle East or Asia? The US is nowhere near the 'best place to live'. Sorry. Check out the 'most livable places' list 2021: 1 - Norway; 2 - Ireland (tie); 2 - Switzerland (tie); 4 - Iceland (tie); 4 - Hong Kong, China (SAR)(tie); 6 - Germany; 7 - Sweden; 8 - Australia (tie); 8 - Netherlands (tie); 10 - Denmark. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/best-coun... |