For most tech workers in the US, there is no EU country where:
salary - EU taxes + Social Welfare Benefits > salary - US taxes - US healthcare - US retirement
My employer routinely sends me to Frankfurt/Brussels/Paris. There are no local engineers doing what I am doing who have a higher standard of living than I do-- and I'm only middle of the road here in the US.
Of course, the reality is completely different for almost every other career field but no amount of free healthcare makes up for the fact that I earn, at a minimum, 2x the amount an aerospace engineer in Paris does.
Also, the safety of the US is highly variable. In my area the gravest and most obscene crime that has occurred in the last five years was some teens spray painting "420 every day" on the dumpster behind the elementary school.
salary - EU taxes + Social Welfare Benefits > salary - US taxes - US healthcare - US retirement
My employer routinely sends me to Frankfurt/Brussels/Paris. There are no local engineers doing what I am doing who have a higher standard of living than I do-- and I'm only middle of the road here in the US.
Of course, the reality is completely different for almost every other career field but no amount of free healthcare makes up for the fact that I earn, at a minimum, 2x the amount an aerospace engineer in Paris does.
Also, the safety of the US is highly variable. In my area the gravest and most obscene crime that has occurred in the last five years was some teens spray painting "420 every day" on the dumpster behind the elementary school.