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Originally Posted by ukw
Going by your criteria, the average person has way more fun and pleasure in an Australian or Northern-European city (yes, even Helsinki) than they do in the average American city, where there is nothing to do, life is strictly regulated by a litany of laws regarding activities such as drinking or entertainment, and there is generally less real-life freedom (although possibly more political freedom). Worse food, no public transportation, a surprising persistence of religious laws, an unpleasant conformity with a lack of true culture, boredom, all conspire to make American cities much worse in comparison to the ones in .AU or Europe.
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This is basically all wrong, and silly, and this has nothing to do with Europe, but the Anglosphere, and Nordic countries.
Australia and Canada, and Nordic Europe, do not, on average, have better food, better transportation, more religious freedom, less conformity, than other first world nations.
Most of the things you listed, on average, are probably worse in those places, and in any case, they don't seem to figure into the calculation.
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Originally Posted by ukw
Good jobs are available aplenty in Germany:
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Germany isn't on the list. The German economy is not exactly strong right now anyways, BTW.