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Originally Posted by thez99
Thats one of the great things bout living in europe, cars come cheaper and much more well made and jobs pay more with less actual work which equals more money to spend on toys n such. Wonder if ill ever find my way over there
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Yeah, what are you smokin'? My wife works in biotech as an engineer and her salary for an equivalent job in the same company went down a lot when we moved to Europe. Numbers wise (without currency conversion) she makes about 60% of what she did, and with dollar-to-euro conversion makes about 80% of what she did. And that is gross, if you take the net after taxes it is even worse.
Granted, there is about 3 weeks more vacation and slightly less stressful working environment... but still definitely don't get paid more. And normal cars are significantly more expensive, especially if you get into the higher HP models which they tax the shit out of.