[syliconadder]

India also has jobs that pays a similar wage compared to the rest of the population. But these are more outliers than the norm. Europe doesn't seem to have that many options at upward mobility, even a salary of 80,000 euros seems paltry when compared to the housing crisis across board, inflation and the general lack of innovation when compared to the US or China.

[zamnos]

On the other hand, an €80k salary also includes not going bankrupt if you dare get cancer or cost you $19k if you want to birth a baby, and also allows you to live in a place where there's decent public transportation so you don't need a car and all that stress if you don't want. It means not going $200k in debt to go to college. It means drug laws that are more aimed at harm reduction rather than moralizing. I'm sure there's others.