Note that this is an old article from March 2023; the program is now being phased out in various countries
Am American. Moved to the Netherlands in July. My salary went down some, and the taxes are higher, but structural differences mean that I’m paying a lot less out of pocket on essentials like healthcare and transportation, which translates into the same, if not better, net take home pay.
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Even if it weren’t cheaper, having decent public transportation, universal healthcare, fewer mass shootings, and proportional representation seem like they would be worth it.
Although the rising of the far right, weakening of the gdpr, chat control, and the threat of Americanization (huge trucks, worse food regulation, kowtowing to tech giants) does make things just slightly less appealing.
Fucked home, come to fuck it up here too?
Most of western Europe is like 5 to 10 years behind the US in the continuing collapse of late stage capitalism. Good luck. Short of enacting some more socially conscious policies with expeditious urgency the EU is gonna be just as fucked as we are.
