alt Hacker NewsIt's always hilarious to see HN users claim how the "quality of life" is so much better in the EU than the USA. When in reality most of them only ever visit a handful of EU first-tier cities for short vacations or business trips, and never have to deal with the reality of living and working under an oppressive bureaucratic state.
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Having worked in both the US and EU, I can tell you the quality of life is vastly better in the EU.
US does have some perks for sure. But there are so many issues of its own and those issues are almost always pushed downwards to the most vulnerable groups. Which means, on average, you do end up with a better quality of life outside the US.
> never have to deal with the reality of living and working under an oppressive bureaucratic state.
I see that you have never had to deal with the US government.
Rage bait as it is; please stay over there in the US, I will stay here in Spain. I will live with this 'opression' that I have to read about on HN to notice. All good!
Conversely, most Europeans praising the USA have mostly been to California or New York, and rarely to Ohio or Alabama
Well, there are lots of EU countries where governments aren't as idiotic as that of Spain, and where bureaucracy is mostly under control as well.
As a citizen of a Nordic country I would never want to live in America, except maybe if I was rich. Especially for people with children my country offers a superior quality of life in many ways.
The USA consistently ranks outside the top 10 countries in Quality of Life by any reputable metric.
The HOA, the ICE, 1984 like scans in the airports even as a tourist, lack of basic healthcare...
Yeah, you live in the paradise...
In other news NY is working on banning air guns that are not transparent or brightly colored and have plugged barrels. Yes plugged, making them useless.
Which oppressive bureaucratic state are we talking about again?
I'd trade "not being able to access Cloudflare-websites for some hours per week" over "My neighbors can't afford healthcare, there is no public transport for anyone nor can I walk to a cafe on the other side of town", but we all have different priorities :)
Don't get me wrong, it sucks, makes no sense and I hate the responsible people for it, but in the grand scheme of things, Spain does have a higher quality of life than so many other places out in the world, most important, way higher than the country you're comparing it to, on almost any useful metric.