[rqtwteye]

"anybody ambitious would kill for the kind of opportunities Americans have"

That's probably true for the very ambitious. I think the US doesn't work as well for people who just want to have a decent life.

[hamster77]

It’s a better place to achieve something in than to live in… but how nice is Western Europe going to be to live in if it continues to be outgrown by the US and have to compete with Asia?