What's funny is that I was once of those people for most of my life, expended considerable time and money finagling an EU passport (woo hoo Spain), and then sold everything to move there in a transitional life moment (fuck Silicon Valley forever). I came back.
Wonderful. You've had the experience and can properly evaluate. That's more than most people have done. That thread I linked to blew up, and I never quite realized how many US lefties fantasize about moving to Europe, and *really* don't like seeing that fantasy critiqued.
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Europe is a charming museum and theme park, and I still hope to live there when I've fully retired from life. I'd love to (partially) raise my kids there. But it falls short of the US in many ways that I don't think most Americans (particularly hustler types) realize.
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Also, many of its charms (the lavish social safety net for example, or the pacifist politics) exist because they live inside an American military protectorate. Take that exogenous factor away, and Europe is a very, very different place...
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