[chrsw]

I'm American and I applied to a software dev role at a European tech company some years ago. The job looked interesting and I thought it would be a fun adventure living abroad. I was shocked how low their salary range was. Even if I got their best offer for that position it would have been less than half what I was currently making. I figured it would be pointless to even to try to negotiate so I just left it alone.

This makes me wonder though, is this sustainable?

[yieldcrv]

It's super sustainable, look at it this way, we talk about various European country's social safety nets and how "America doesn't have that"

well America does, in most states, at low income brackets. free healthcare, subsidized groceries, childcare, even some higher education

which happen to be the same income brackets that most Europeans are at lol