Yes, unlike American democracy.
Europe? Is that still a thing?
You seem kind of sensitive. Is your girly scarf chafing you?
My observation about Europeans.
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Expats always complain about everything. Doesn't matter where they are from, or where they are now (continues to be true if they are back in their home country). Expats complaining is just their standard mode. As an expat, if you are aware of this tendency, you can correct for it. Most unfortunately are not.
- An Expat
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Americans seem to think Europe is one thing. There are loads of countries and they are all really different. The UK or Ireland, say, are much closer to the US than they are to, say, Greece or Bulgaria. Its like Europeans thinking Mexico or Cuba or Brazil are exactly the same as the US because they are all in America.
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Similarly like you thinking that Murica is one thing.
I am Eurobro who lived in Murica for more than decade, in Asia and now back to Europe.
All have pluses and minuses.
In terms of job gets done , Murica and Asia beat Europe on every count.
In terms of family importance, hanging out, Europe is still better.
Unfortunately, Europe is on decline.By the way Greece and Bulgaria are nicer than anything that Murica have, and much nicer than UK or Ireland.
Americans seem to think Europe is one thing. There are loads of countries and they are all really different. The UK or Ireland, say, are much closer to the US than they are to, say, Greece or Bulgaria. Its like Europeans thinking Mexico or Cuba or Brazil are exactly the same as the US because they are all in America.
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Americans seem to think Europe is one thing. There are loads of countries and they are all really different.
Yeah, this is something that every adult should know (actually every elementary schooler), but it seems that people here don't know. For example Norway, Hungary and Portugal differ vastly in terms of politics, culture, language, economics, climate, etc. Yet some people think that Europe is one homogeneous place. It is pointless to treat Europe as a one homogeneous place.
Treating Europe as a homogeneous place is like saying that US is very cold place to live because Anchorage, Alaska is quite cold. Then somebody else says that no, that is bulls**t, actually US is hot and humid place to live because Florida is hot and humid.
One good example is in last page when somebody said that Europe has a lot of corruption using France as an example, without realizing that Scandinavian countries are least corrupted places in world and that some other European countries have much less corruption than France...
Comparing net salaries is highly misleading. Childcare and education is almost free in most European countries.
Don't expect that people in economics job market rumors know this kind of stuff.
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What I do not get is: I have simply no choice to go to the US. Of course, I could work at McDonalds but I do not want to. Given the fact that I am a tenured deadwood at a European Top1000-university with a more then generous pay (given my publications) I can only stay where I am. So why should I compare US with Europe? The outcome is clear: Europe is better. Not because it is really better, but because I am stuck here.