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cynicalsecurity ◴[] No.37271086[source]
As much as I like my vacations, I would rather prefer US salary over it.
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lionkor ◴[] No.37271102[source]
Does the US salary hold up against the benefits you get in a well-off EU country? Namely free healthcare, automatic payments into pension fund, strong social system if you're ever in trouble, etc.?

It seems to me that, as high as US salaries are, they arent that much higher compared to European salaries when you factor all this in, plus the face that a month of that work youre paid for youre OOO

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Longhanks ◴[] No.37271151[source]
For Germany: "Free" as in waiting for months to get an appointment with a specialist? "Pension fund" as in gigantic ponzi scheme that requires 30% of the state‘s yearly budget, with no party having any kind of plan how to save the system? "Strong social system" as in being taken advantage of with the world‘s second highest taxes?

Sure, I’d rather be super poor in Europe than in the US. But anybody above the poorest, anybody that can and wants to work for a living, I’d much rather try to find my luck in America.

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1. ubercore ◴[] No.37271212[source]
Healthcare in the US is super uneven. I had longer wait times for appointments in the northeast than I do here in Norway now with the public system.

You can get really lucky in the US and have a great experience, but you can also have really terrible ones _and_ pay quite a bit for it.