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by fnordpiglet 1020 days ago
Absolutely true. But saying UK doctors are underpaid because they’re paid half of a US doctor while ignoring everyone is paid half of a US person for everything is disingenuous. Everyone in the UK is inexplicably underpaid, and everything is expensive.

What was your brothers take on the US?

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> What was your brothers take on the US?

He lived in a small town in Oregon with his first wife. While they weren’t paid a lot, life wasn’t expensive either. I think he would have stayed except the marriage didn’t work out. Obviously that isn’t an entirely fair comparison to London, but I still think the pay-to-expenses ratio would be more favourable in small-town US than small-town UK

Yeah skilled labor in construction fields in the US can be very well paid, and there’s a massive demand and short supply.