Europoors, Are Poor
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We dont work for nothing, we work so that our new foreign guests dont have too. We work for their futures.
They're trying to do the same in the US.
@@wifi961doing the same in the us
@@wifi961everytime i go to wall mart all i see is illegals with ebt cards
Anyone can look at the skill shortage list for any country.
Nothing keeping anyone here, unless you lack initiative.
I really don’t like migrants mainly refugees. I just hate how European tax payers have to pay for them too. They probably wouldn’t risk their lives to come here if they won’t do it for the wars they are in.
I don't want money or wealth I want an Ireland for Irish people
Hear, hear!
Racist!
The wealth isn't for you. It's for the people who extract it from you via tax.
Edit: To those people, we are nothing more than cattle.
@@JailBo-id7kobot?
@@JailBo-id7ko not nearly enough!
The current state of the EU can be summarized in a single word.
BRUSSELS
And we're all up the sprout.
Hard to argue against the EU on an economic basis.
27 borders, 27 currencies, and 27 different sets of product regulations will make your country worse off.
Again, thats from the economic context only, before Im told about other issues. Economic.
What is with Brussels?
@@wifi961
*_It's their sprouts - They stink, just like them ..._*
@@wifi961Little, green, leafy men.
Europe for Europeans
Europe not accepting migration to a mass extent will be the end of Europe. You have to feed the capitalist machine for it to keep growing, if you stop then so does the machine and that leads to stagnation. Only reason US is doing well is because it let in the entirety of Mexico since the 70’s and has been accepting mass immigration our entire existence. If a country like Japan was letting in american levels of immigration then it would be rivalling america as we speak. Human capital is the single most important thing for economic growth and the more you have the higher the GDP number. Im not telling you to accept mass immigration, im just saying what will happen if you don’t.
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Hey, they worked hard to bring you diversity.
We may as well just put istan and abad at the end of our country names now. It’s going to take some kind of world war to change it and I’m not sure anyone left has the heart for it. Who wants to fight for a country who doesn’t care about the natives? We already know the ‘new Brits’ don’t care by their statistics in fire and policing emergency service and military jobs. I left doctor out because you’re not going to die in that role vs the others. Also, immigrants are underrepresented in nhs jobs vs their population per capita.
Most Europeans were also decendants of migrants!
There's no Irish people on the bus with me and nobody is speaking English but the sure are all speaking loudy
I’ve noticed they like to yell into their phones.
@jonathanandrew2909 it's a sick joke and I am now utterly opposed to this system/culture whatever it is, is my mortal enemy for as long as I live
They put their phones level with their chins and bellow.
@@jonathanandrew2909I took a holiday trip to Japan and noticed some... Indian, Pakistani(?) people doing the same thing on the train. There's an unspoken rule about keeping your phone on silent/using headphones, and not talking on your phone on the trains, but the Pakistani folks were just blasting their speakers and talking on speakerphone very loudly. I was probably the only brown guy in that car being quiet.
The ghetto people here in America act the same way. You can argue that Americans are generally louder than most other peoples, but the "hyphenated" Americans like to be even louder and generally obnoxious for some reason.
Come to France, the metro is full of Africans speaking English.
What good is it how much you earn when your country is being taken away from under your feet
What part of the US? The cost can vary wildly from state to state.
But both Europe and the USA are being taken over by
@@SpaceForce635the entire south right now is being screwed by illegals
@@SpaceForce635 It's every state, sadly. Who would've guessed Minneapolis would become New Mogadishu for example. But then I'm not sure who OP's comment was directed at, since Europe and the US are suffering the same plague.
It matters because money is power and can bring some security - That this even needs to be said is absurd.
I don't want a big paycheck, I want a stable future. I want the home I was told I would inherit.
k?
not happening
You are owed nothing, it's either earn or protect. Without those you will get nothing
You will probably end up paying 40% inheritance tax on it in Europe.
You need immigration to prop up low birth rates
If EMPOWERING women reduces fertility rates, how do you fix it?
Also the fact that Asians are allowed to own property in the west meanwhile westerners can’t buy property in Asia is also a major factor.
I'm Asian. If we allow people from rich countries to buy property here, it would drive up prices to the point the locals cannot afford it. Also, Asian countries differ a lot on this.
@@phoenix5054There are more billionaires in China alone than any other country. People in the west are also getting out bid by Chinese billionaires trying to get their money out of China.
@phoenix5054 exactly what is happening here. Rich Asians buying up our real estate to protect their money from the governments back home, driving up property prices for us locals.
@@CJ-re7bx No, America has more than 2x as many billionaires as China.
Gyna@@CJ-re7bx
I lived in US. Made $95k p/a. 22% tax rate.
UK you get taxed %42 for earning £43k+
But, but... You get "free" healthcare! 🙄
O_O
@@captainz9 having used both systems. US is superior. You don’t have to wait 7hrs in A&E
@@Meth-and-Taxes Most developed countries don't have the ridiculous waiting lists we have in the UK. The NHS is one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world in terms out health outcomes.
@trolleriffic That's OK, leftoids will brag about any system as if it is the best in the world.
Why would Europeans allow this to be done to them?
Because they're too bovine and lazy to do anything about it. Same as Americans.
Brussels
Hold up the fuck you mean they haven’t payed America for there protection money from ourselves yet
Estrogen in the water supply (roastie abortion pills)
we gave up our arms and now we cant object anymore.
What you forget is that the British currency collapsed after 2008. If you think that until that point it was £1 got you $2, then although wages still different was not as bad. Uk was destroyed in 2008 and has not recovered. The same year I officially finished uni to enter the workforce....yay.
Don't worry, George Soros is almost dead. But I hear his son is significantly worse...
Mass immigration pretty much started that year
I remember interest rates being really high as well.
Now my bank account has 0.01% interest.
_'If you think that until that point it was £1 got you $2'_
Yes, and no. From Dec 2006 to July 2008 is was that. However, prior to Dec 2006 the pound was weaker. For most of the '90s and early '00s $1 would get between 60 and 70 pence. The 60 to 70 pence per $1 range resumed from Nov 2008 to March 2016, thereafter it's ranged in the 70 - 80 pence per dollar mostly.
Of course, the heyday of the pound was 100 years ago when £1 got you from $4.24 to $5.04 in the years 1900 to 1939. Only in three of those years was the pound worth less than $4.
@@gagamba9198 Pound is currently $1.25 US.
hey look on the bright side, you guys get to wait 3 months to see a doctor for "free"
I keep away from doctors and hospitals, not good for your health.
If you're dirt poor in the US, you get free health care, and you don't have to wait months either. Boston has the best hospitals in the world.
@@robertkeyes258 People often forget this aspect. Frankly I hate it because at least 80% of those poor people are grifters, but if you do support this universal health care crap, at least give us credit where credit is due, ffs.
Also, as an American I pay 17 dollars a month for good insurance due to where I work. There are so many options and nuances to the American health care system that warrants some sort of credit.
Still sucks though, just not as much as one would expect. Plus the American's almost single handedly prop up the entire development of pharmaceutical drugs, so your welcome world for taking yet another L for the team.
@@CrossBreedTacoHDas well as our military basically supporting them. they've had a free ride on the backs of Americans. better them than illegals, "asylum seekers", "refugees", or our permantly "oppressed"... but if they had to spend the dough to defend themselves, no NHS
Calling them doctors is a massive stretch.
Young people of the UK don't come to Canada. It's just as bad.
Probably worse
Yall did save my Aunt though (she has dual citizenship and lives there, married a Canadian). The US ranks fairly similar in healthcare with the two going back and forth doing some things a little better than the other.
don't come to America. higher wages are just deceiving because everything is expensive as shit
wasnt planning to lol
imagine being white and willingly moving to north america
If you want to live in a rural area and work really hard, sky's the limit tho.
Still have to pay 55% tax, but there are ways to mitigate.
Just have to be willing to NOT rely on the government.
I graudated uni 4 years ago as a mature student. I've not had a single interview in 4 years of applying. At this point I dont know if I want to work. Get taxed to pay for more immigrants ? The demoralisation is very real
My mother has been working since she was 16 and has contributed to the system for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, her neighbors, who smoke weed all day and are unemployed, seem to be better off than she is.
Thats bs any bachelor can find work u must be picky 😆
@@geert574probably got a degree in the history of modern art. A hobby funded by the banks.
what did you study?
@@geert574 working for 8 dollars an hours which amounts to same standard of living as unemployed, or not working?
And then the euros wonder why american work culture is the way it is
mexican and irish? i dont wonder about that
i wonder when america will become a full spanish speaking country, soon
@QuadDamage666 look up what an Italian work day is like, it'll make more sense
@@QuadDamage666same bro them some pussies
@@QuadDamage666they don’t build them like America
@@dogbot55The standard working day in Italy starts at around 09:00-09:30 and finishes at around 18:00-18:30, with a lunch break starting around 13:00 and lasting up to two hours
is this it? Could you explain?
Things will get better when we stop using coal, oil and gas and our manufacturing totally disappears.
i assume this is sarcasm
@@UniqueBreakfastTaco
I pray it is.
It's already happening! Negative growth in Germany because every industry is on the path to demise
Sarcasm of course, but there are genuinely commies who believe people are poor because the manual labour has been automated. Their plan is to get people back working the land after they've removed the gas--guzzling combine harvesters.
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IDK why so many of my fellow college peers in the US always dreaming about living in Europe. You'll get paid so much less and pay so much more to the government.
Its because Europe is culturally richer. We have better culture, better architechture and better food. America is a joke, regardless of how much money they make.
@@ryanparker4996Europoor detected opinion discarded
its nice to visit, for sure. When i was in budapest some years ago, i was talking with a PhD physicist who complained about half his salary going straight to the govt. thats just insane to me.
It's the "grass is greener' perception together with seeing things as a tourist vs living and working there.
They're probably loberals.
If you’ve been to bucees, you will understand why they pay that well. The bathrooms are spotless, the bbq tasty and the selection is massive. You are paid what the labor market will bear.
Those places are stupidly busy
their twitter is fire too
I've also heard that it's a grueling place to work. If you can't wear a smile and be enthusiastic through your entire shift, you're out. If you laze about even a little and management sees, you're out. Bucees wages are higher than pretty much any other similar business, and yet they always have those hiring signs up.
It's almost like if you pay your workers more you get better outcomes...
Is Bucee’s in Texas?
Loads of taxes, no wage increase because "you wouldn't want to chase inflation" and immigrant concurrence. That's what happened.
Loads of taxes and state welfare is the problem. Artificially raising wages is one of the big factors causing the devaluation of currency in the US, behind The Fed printing off trillions of funny money to burn on useless government contracts and saddling tax payers with the bill...
Don't forget shutting down the economy for the pandemic, replacing meritocracy with equality, and giving billions to fund proxy wars.
And don't forget that Thatcher set it up so all the industry was sold off.
So, we definitely need to compare income to local buying power.
In the US the ratio of the costs of rent to the median wage has increased 5-fold, the ratio of food costs to wage, 3-fold.
This will differ locally. I wonder what the overall Europe to America comparison is from this perspective.
@@qq-wy7zsif we could get the FDA to relax local food sourcing regulations and hand that over to municipalities or the states. I think we could see a serious decrease in food prices. And rent has increased mostly because it’s illegal to not build single family homes. And the places where rent is skyrocketing either is stupidly attractive to live in (good jobs) or is really attractive to foreign investors. San Fran has had to deal with a little bit of this pressure. Where you could put your house on the market and receive a double all cash bid from a Chinese investor. Which regularly wouldn’t be bad since a sensible investor would rent out the place or redevelop it. But NIMBYs work hard everyday to increase the cost of living for EVERYONE
Us pays what a job is worth. Europe pays what the government will subsidize.
this
A lot of employers don’t pay what the job is worth. They pay what people will take because the labor market is full of labor.
Europeans get basically free healthcare, and most get free education. Americans graduate burneded with massive debt, are terrified of getting sick, and even more scared at the sheer thought of having to call an ambulance. Americans pay more each month in tons of insurances than any european pays per year for the same insurances.
Until it's medicine or medical.
@@KnightofAgesMy annual national insurance bill doesn't seem to be free? Also I actually needed an ambulance recently and was told to call a taxi because it would be quicker!.
I might have lost some money in the US system, but at least I wouldn't have left a taxi driver traumatised.
As an ex-Chipotle employee from LA
Hearing that a General Manager from London makes about $38k a year made me drop my burrito 🌯 wtf is money anymore
Money is fiat currency backed by debt and military not wealth
$1 now is not $1 in 1950.
In America MOST of the homeless population IS EMPLOYED. Large swaths of homeless people in California have jobs. Many have more than one job, but rents are so high they cannot afford an apartment.
We work so the dr and engineer in a hotel can get his £90 a week for new nikes.
You need immigrants. You have below replacement fertility rates
If EMPOWERING women reduces fertility rates, how do you fix it?
You need immigration to prop up low birth rates
If EMPOWERING women reduces fertility rates, how do you fix it?
@@mortaldao8044wrong , you don't need to grow a population by over 10million in under a decade to make sure the work force doesn't age out.
you need a flexible government that enables people to have kids while being able to afford a house. you can't maintain property prices via mass migration which pushes up demand and reduces wages for the average person who of which 95% working class are the ones to provide the majority of new generations.
Mass migration has failed and this reduced fertility rate is just a bs excuse so the gov can continue their mass migration.
it's about money , control nothing more nothing less.
@@mortaldao8044 Nope. Migration has caused a massive housing shortage so ppl cant get kids cuz they cant afford the rent or mortage for a starter family place.
@@tpeterson9140 No it hasn't. We know this because third world countries have plenty of kids without stable housing, and the migrants now in your country also have kids with lower total household income. But you know what they DO have? What does every country with above replacement fertility rates got in common???
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The tax levels widen the gap even more.
Europe is a great place to live if you are poor or retired; universal healthcare, and you don't pay much even with higher tax rates.
The USA is great if you are skilled and working; lower taxes and higher pay.
yeah.... been at the USA from Europe... I was struggling to find food to eat at your Malls, supermarkets etc....... no fresh produce at all from anything..... I'm happy to keep my low salary and buy fresh produce NO GMO.... I could not find a proper bakery to buy proper bread...... keep your dollars and all trash food you have ;)
@@user-oh9uq2ob4s Skill issue. They are there. You just didn't do your homework to navigate a foreign country.
@@RealLifeIronMan was there for work not for living :D
@@user-oh9uq2ob4s So you don't do your homework when traveling for work? Skill issue.
@@RealLifeIronMan so it is a skill issue you need to do extensive ground work to find edible food at the USA, pathetic you are mate....
When I was still gaming I fell in with a group of Brits that I got along with. All of them were in oil and gas and had immigrated to the United States. As a Yankee I couldn’t understand why they had no care for returning, perhaps this is a major contributor. I can’t help but think England has fallen, perhaps we need to fire up the old Anglo-American Establishment and get things sorted.
Boardgaming or video gaming?
@@solan7978 Xbox (don’t play anymore) although I do enjoy tabletop games both board and pen & paper.
@@quadrasaurus-rex8809 Every played Arkham Horror 2nd Edition, Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition, Talisman 4th edition, or Shadows of Brimstone?
@@solan7978 sorry, I have not. I was a scrubby warzone player with a K/D lower than my country’s birth rate 😂
@@quadrasaurus-rex8809 Worth asking. Those are a few of my favorite boardgames, and I highly recommend them!
Median income in America is about 35k-40k.
California is a very very very bad metric because the cost to live in the cities over there is so insane that anything less than 100k isn't considered livable. You wouldn't be able to the costs associated with housing (rent, mortgage, utilities), food, insurances, etc by yourself... Where as $100k almost anywhere else not run into the ground by Democrat super majorities will see you fully self sufficient and you will not be struggling to afford any of the aforementioned things.
The median income was $50k for a long time
@@gifthorse3675no it wasn’t. OP is referencing median individual incomes. Maybe you would be right if you use average or household but not median individual
Median income for a full time worker in the US is currently just over $56k
It's not when comparing it to London, which Callum was and stressed over and over and over again, so why mention it other than to shit on the commie devils? I mean fair enough fuck those guys but does that add to Callum's point or rebut it in some way, cuz it seems like a total non-sequitur.
Specifically San Francisco when such a large chunk of America's "industry" (the tech space), is concentrated there. A tiny proportion of the population pushing up the regional average.
Don’t care about money, just want to preserve my country and culture
You need immigrants because of your below replacement fertility rates
If EMPOWERING women reduces fertility rates, how do you fix it?
Lack of money is a major cause of the problem. I despise money, but I cannot deny that it is important to further my goals.
Which is dead already. And the young don't care about your morals. They only want $$
If you want to preserve your culture let more immigrants in, unless you consider the nonsense being perpetuated by white feminist women as “your culture.” Take responsibility for this toxic ideology being spread from West to East not vice-versa.
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As a PhD holder in life sciences with 5 years exp, I can go and work in the UK for £40,000 a year or I can work in the USA for $120,000+ USD.
It's not a hard choice.
Go do it then
Not so.k7ch, becausevthe US is absolutely sh*te, so the days of Brits wanting to emigrate to that man-made hell hole are over. That's part of the readon wages are not competitive - the threat to emigrate is an empty threat.
And this is why the west is an utter mess; economies run by mercenary migrants that see nations as hotels/marketplaces
@@Mark-jb1fjWhy would he go to the UK to earn much less than he already does
What are holidays like in the US? Can't deny that the USA pays better, but curious how work-life balance is.
Ahhhh the post war dream .
Never happened
I am so sorry
@@Hectorogents don't be ,I've never known riches
We won the war and lost many men ,we should flood the country with Muslims
Keep importing cheap labour will definitely have the desired effect.
Average rent in San Fran is about $3300 for a 740 sq foot apartment. Assuming you really did make $100k a year. You also paid $30k in taxes. Add the $40k in rent and you're left with $30k a year. Minus utilities including cellular, $3600 a year. Average car payment $8400 per year. Car insurance $2800 per year. Gas/Petrol usage per year is $3000. Health insurance $5600 per year. Finally groceries $3800 per adult, per year. Leaving you with $6400 or $17.50 a day for all other expenses. Good luck trying to raise a family or going on vacation. A movie ticket costs over $20 bucks in these places.
A movie ticket also costs 20$ in Denmark and we make far less. I have not paid to see a movie ever.
@@witoldschwenke9492 If it makes you feel any better the real median wage for Americans is $37k per year. That's what a typical American actually earns according to the social security office. The $64k average is grossly inflated as it counts billionaires and millionaires. In layman's terms both Elon Musk and myself make $64k a year. Or to put it in another way me and Shaquille O'Neal (216 centimeters) are actually 180 centimeters tall because that's the average. Though income wise Elon would be several kilometers in height.
You say “save money for vacation” as if we even have enough PTO for a real vacation lol
Don't forget he's comparing to London where the equivalent wage is 30k with the same cost of living
@@CharlesNauck The last available numbers are from 2022, per the US census show $37k. Google "us median income". The bureau numbers are from 2024. But I'm quite sure the "median" used by the bureaus of labor statistics is merely an average. As it counts full time employees in all salary positions. Aka a doctor makes $48k along with a fry cook. Median being defined as what 51% actually make.
This is evident by the fact that out of 141 million taxpayers 107 million are at or below the 12% tax bracket. Which is $44,725 or less for single and $89,450 for jointly/married.
It's a double edged sword.... Sure, Americans make a 100 grand a year cleaning toilets but immagine paying half of that for rent in a big city...
Yeah but the cost of living in San Fran or New York is similar to that of of London. In fact even Japan has higher wages and lower cost of living than the UK. The UK has one of the worst cost of living crisis in the world.
@@jonny2931cost of living is WAY higher in NYC and SF 😅
@wulfsorenson8859 I just checked it on online they are quite close. In fact a really recent study showed that 9500 dollars in New York goes as far as 7500 dollars in London. Mind you that doesn't account for the piss poor wages you get in London. If you factor in the difference in wages, then it becomes even closer. People in London just don't realize how asinine the situation is. I didn't realize how bad it was until I moved here.
EUDSSR achieved ✅
if only...
Australia was pretty rich a decade ago, but it's largely followed the same regressive social and economic policies the UK has and as a result Australians are poorer in 2024 than they were in 2014, meanwhile the median house price across that same period has essentially doubled.
Everything else; electricity, water, groceries, cars, fuel has also significantly increased too.
Aussies are now poorer than Germans, Austrians, Belgians....even icelanders.
Not contesting your conclusion because I don't have the numbers, however everything you mentioned has been going on in western europe and to some extent scandinavia as well. Which is strange, as these countries have only a few commonalities...
@@CarlGustavHung Australia has received vast amounts of immigration in the last 10 years, give or take.
700k moved here in the last year.
That's proportionately even higher than what the UK experiences.
Additionally we've adopted every progressive value, from abortion to government subsidies for the low-income bracket (which are in essence a purchase on securing the voting support of the poor).
I'm not sure about the EU countries, but the anglosphere is pretty much all one big country, with only minor differences.
@@Waywind420I know all that. Everything you mentioned is happening across the EU, Scandinavia, Canada too. The commonality is not anglo's, but it's close.
not to mention allowing foreigners to buy lots of real estate. The rental vacancy rate Australia wide is 1% and I hear 'Amsterdam is the worst' when its 1.5% lol
@@mkuc6951 My neighbours have rented a house in my area for 18 years but the house prices here have doubled in 2 years 💀 so their rent got put up to about $600 a week (for a very average house an hour away from the city).
They couldn't afford that so they've been squeezed out of this suburb (poor lady broke her ankle during the moving process too and had to be hospitalised).
Everything's terrible and the government are way too chill with the fact young people through no fault of their own will have to work DOUBLE as much just to buy the same house they wanted a couple years ago.
Immigration needs to be capped at like 1/10th its current amount.
America is an expensive place though,
- food, clothes, and family costs etc.
Childcare alone can cost up to $15,000 a year in larger parts of the country, $4,000 for an ambulance trip to the hospital, and that's just the drive, not the medical bill, etc
But yeah, our wages in the UK should be higher, it's okay if you're a skilled tradesman working for yourself, but if you're a forklift operator, site labourer, hospital porter, prison janitor, or trash collector, financially you're treated like an idiot,
- I know.
God bless
I know, especially San Francisco ffs!
On the note of technical jobs paying not badly in London: I am in the states working in cybersecurity and my brother is doing the same in London. For a lot of senior positions he found they paid less than my old training position as an analyst.
I get paid double that now.
I work in the same field. $185k US, telecommute. I'm told I can make more if I'd accept a managerial role, but I don't want to.
San Francisco has one of the fastest shrinking populations in the US. Housing is outrageously expensive and the quality of life sucks. Businesses are leaving in droves because of the crime. I would not live there for any amount.
We are taxed to the stoneage for absolutely nothing.
Yep. There's no reason to work hard in Europe.
I was floored when I found out what the NHS pays it's doctors
Beau thinks that houses in AU and NZ are affordable. That’s adorable.
Americans watch BBC talking about a person in London talking about their awesome new flat and everything looks cheap, small and run down. Every aspect of British material culture seems shabby and poor
It is
If I weren't so attached to my homeland, I would have emigrated long ago
Same
Same
Same
But to where? Everywhere is becoming the same
You can only run for so long. These people move about like a plague of locusts, devouring until there’s nothing left and they simply move on. But we are not devourers. We build, we create, and we maintain.
Low salaries are fine. You don't need that much stuff. It's low salaries and a crazy high cost of living that doesn't make sense.
That's most of the world though, not just Europe.
Salaries in the UK haven't increased in real terms since the 80s, while the cost of living and taxes have soared in the last 40 years.
But we’ve got the NHS…
It takes a lot of time and money to pay for your free healthcare
when you can get an appointment we've got healthcare otherwise don't hold your breath
Isnt it ranked at the bottom of Western healthcare though?
Do you though?
Just been told waiting list for gallbladder removal is almost 3 years. Private around 8k. There is a hole in the care that is provided by NHS.
Gotta give up Socialism in the UK folks.
Taxes are just as high or higher in many States in America.
Socialism is ironically far from what's causing it. It's landlords charging too much rent, the government not aiding housing development as landlords want prices high for profit, and utility companies charging through the roof with no government caps.
@@advanceaustralia4861 the socialist states, yeah. CA, NY, WA, OR, MA, CT, MD...
@@UniqueBreakfastTaco nope, not even that. Most states.
Do you even know what that word means?
I like how this channel has been going over the various problems and factors in the UK and what is causing it for years and you understood exactly none of it.
This is so depressing and demoralizing. Why live in England when you can get rich doing the exact same job (or even lower!) in the US??
You need to take taxes into account. California is one of the highest, if not the highest. Sales tax, property tax, vehicle tax, state tax, federal tax. Plus rent, gasoline, food, utilities, internet, etc. So, these “high pay” aren’t actually high after it’s all stolen.
Lastly, inflation of the currency. The dollar is not as powerful as people think.
our tax rate for everything over £42K is 40%
Yeah, as a Californian everything is expensive af overhere. We may have dough but 100k will get you a LOT less in a Californian city than it would get you in the UK countryside.
@@puma21puma21 its £52k. I just wanted to rectify. I pay £1700 a month in taxes... more than my mortgage and bills combined. It is utterly sickening... and worst part is I am not entitled to anything if I lose my job. This country sucks. I need to find a better job in another country.
@@madma11 What country are you considering?
@@puma21puma21 philipines, Slovenia, Italy are the current ones
Part of the Appalachians are extremely poor? The poorest parts of America are still richer than almost all of Europe except maybe Luxembourg.
I work part-time selling firearms in Texas and make $30k a year.
Based
Here in the UK you make a lot more selling firearms.
@@simonh6371Supply and demand, supply and demand..
@@simonh6371🤣🤣🤣
I never understood the europoor meme until my parents took me to Hungary and I met an anesthesiologist whose monthly pay was less than what I took home WEEKLY at my college summer gig working construction.
Hungary does have much lower costs of living, although they have been hit with the big increases recently too. My friends live well there on much less money than we do in the UK
Out here in Texas(at least in the more rural areas, can’t speak for the big cities) teachers start at 50k. And mind you, a fair bit of the time these teachers don’t even have a teacher certification or are still in the process of obtaining one… like me.
If cost of living was back to 2018 levels, that would be more than enough to live comfortably.
Now in Texas that's hardly enough to afford a single family house that isn't run down or in a rough area.
to my knowledge you can get 75k in cities. Lots of the teachers in my state moved to texas because of it, caused a problem of lack of teachers here lol.
Not too bad i mean i live in Texas and in a not well off area with the occasional gunshots and sirens but me and my brother managed to get a house with our warehouse jobs. Luckily the neighborhood we live was bad back in the day but its calmed down some cause the young ones grew up and moved out or something
@@1e0isfdkorblpggoddamn 75k?! now i know why so many of my teachers weren't from Texas. Shit id leave for that too
my aunt taught in Boston public schools, retired in 2008 with $125k salary, has a great pension I think it's like $90k. But she had to put up with decades of horrible inner city students.
Labour voters be like: mmmmh yes we'll have what they're having! Give us some more of that!
As an American, I can confirm that the wages are great. I manage a sandwich shop that you could compare to a Subway, and I make 80k/year. I got the position at 19 years old and bought my first home, 3bedroom 2 bathroom in a great spot in NC last year at 21 years old. No student debt as college was not needed.
You don't realize how rare your story is. The statistics bear that out.
Living a dream, $80k? Wow. I have an MBA and have worked for megacorps in FL for decades and have never broken $52k even working 50-60 hours a week sometimes.
This is not that rare. I know many, many people that bought their homes in their 20s. I bought my first home at 26.
@@adamoliver4094 Yes, I bought my first home at 27.
@@hexadecimal5236 Sounds like you deserve a raise. Plumbers and electricians are here in Florida earn more than you do.
House prices here in Aus are really high. Also we are being enriched too. The government left in over 700,000 people (mostly from India and china) recently. Where I live (in Melbourne) there are noticeably a lot more non-Europeans around.
I live next to the shittest, poorest, most drug fucked suburb in the area and the house prices there are still 700k. The housing market in Australia is fucked
I think China is trying to colonize Australia, legitimately.
I made £15 ($18)/hour as a marine engineer in the UK with 20 years experience, I tried to apply for a similar job in Malta and they told me $15/hour was too much to ask (Malta has 40% non-EU nationals in the workforce, most of those are Indians -160k Maltese vs 100k non-eu).
I'd be better off working at MacDonnalds in the US, especially as the rent is cheaper there too.
It is not like Australia is an oasis for Britishers. This emigration is arguably worse than the immigration given it compounds problems.
San Francisco and London were two of the great cities in the world.
Amazing what bad government can destroy.
Europoor work ethic leads to Europoor incomes.
The cars are also cheaper inside the United States when compared to the EU. The food is cheaper, the schools are cheaper, and much much more. Excellent point.
AND we have guns!
But but but every leftist told tells me the uk and Europe is a magical place with sunshine and unicorns.
The UK is in Europe, no need to name both separately.
Compared to the US? 100% true, stay there and live your slavery lifes
It’s not just that rent is higher, it’s your take home pay is drastically cut too.
So it’s state and federal taxes, then takeout 401k retirement, then healthcare costs (which for family coverage that was two deductions per month both at just over $300 each) and also any union dues if you are in a union.
So just for my example, I made 90k a year and took home about 45k per year. That had to pay my mortgage, utilities, car, gas, food and everything. Still this is better off than people that made less than I did (but not as good as it first sounds).
Yeah plus I'd never want to live in San Fran. That's the benefit of places like Spain and Italy etc. Is you're in a place that's beautiful and that most people want to come and visit etc. Europe is more than just money.
@@DEadSpaCE211 I have family in Italy and Spain, my concern there is the øpen børders. Otherwise, I love the culture, the people, the food, the Latin languages, the beautiful wømen and the incredible ancient architecture.
@@GhostSal All European folk need to get past their differences and bind together and see how beautiful we are and how important our languages and cultures are. We can bind together and stop this invasion. We can do it 💪.
Buc-ees is a Walmart sized store/gas station with often over 100 fuel pumps. They require a 4 year degree minimum to be a general manager of location according to their website.
Reminds me of something from Omar Bradley's book. Apparently American staff sergeants made as much bank as British captains. It was a similar shock for the Aussies when our boys came over there and were spending big even as non-coms.
I remember reading the same thing in a book called "6 War Years". When the US came to the UK the price of hoors skyrocketed.
Yeah, isn't that why "Americans are overpaid, over-sexed, and over here" became a British catchphrase?
I also remember reading about a German POW who said he knew they were going to lose when he saw that the US Army had brought toilet paper for their troops.
@@oliviastratton2169Japanese said the same except for Ice cream.
@@oliviastratton2169 Some German POWs were 'imprisoned' here in Maine during the war, but during the day they worked as lumberjacks in the great forests, got fed well, paid a stipend, and were treated decently. After the war, many decided to stay. Some brought their families from war-torn and occupied Germany to the US.
@@robertkeyes258 True!
Imagine telling Europeans how rich you are and how they are not, while you absolutely have no time enjoying the things you bought nor do you have a life outside of your job nor have an actual hobby.
Ain't much different in Europe.
@@Mr.scooter-le8yo Debatable
Yup, plus your cities look like shit, food is shit, crime is way higher and cops have no chill. I'd rather live in Czechia/Poland/Hungary/Romania than the US, despite being over 4 times poorer on paper.
@@Mr.scooter-le8yo Germany has similar living standards with way more free time. Switzerland and Norway are even better off in that regard. Germanic Europe is a very livable place. Aswell as some other places like the czech Republic, Poland and the Baltic countries.
I earned 65k last year, not well off but comfortable. Low outgoings. Im very seriously considering quitting as ive newrly paid my house off at 37 and getting a simple, mininum wage job with no hassle. The corporate world is hell on earth. Soul crushing. I want to stop paying into this utterly corrupt system.
Those earning can help you to become a millionaire.
DONT do that.
Wages are now so bad in the UK, US based companies are outsourcing white collar work to the UK.
8:10
*People give homeless people money*
They stand out side stores or in the middle of the road lanes at stop lights asking for money
The craziest shit about bucees pay is that theyre almost entirely in very low cost of living areas. Around a lot of bucees you could afford a small home in the area at intro wages.
Are euros actually worse off then us in America? With how things have been spiraling recently I didn’t think we could be outpaced in terms of decline.
Yes the US has a higher standard of living
Hard to quantify, we pay more for products but generally produce is better and cheaper. I would live in a trash can if it meant the rest going back to Africa. Its hell right now bro
On one hand your cost of living is worse, on the other Europe is in the process of being conquered, and if you are say a woman, the results of that might well be felt rather directly.
The extremes between rich and poor in America are higher then in Europe.
In Europe most people fall in the "reasonable life" category in the middle.
Our work environments and benefits not included in the salary are usually much better.
I wouldn't want to work in America for the rest of my life, but if I could go over for a couple of years to make some quick $$$
and go back home I'd be tempted to do that.
PS: The UK is an outlier, as it also suffers from more extreme fluctuations, like piss poor rural regions and rich inner Londoners.
Most of the continent is more averaged out across regions. The eastern part of the EU actually has the lowest gap between rich and poor.
The majority of the people aren't "rich", but they earn enough to live comfortably (not going hungry, roof over head, warm living space, enough money to go on holidays and go out once a week). The unemployment rate is also extremely low, unless you are completely useless as a person it's extremely easy to find jobs in places like Poland or Hungary.
Yes. Even accounting for medical care, the averafe od the middle fifth of Europe is below the averafe od rhw lowest fifth of the US in compensation except 2 decent sized countries, Switzerland and Norway.
Another thing, I looked into the SFPD pay. Take home pay would be 73,000, and that doesnt account for pre-tax retirement contributions (2% pkus a further 7.5-13.25% of pre-tax income). And they only get 10 paid holiday days per year in the first five years, and 15 days per year after that. Added to which pension contributions on top of the mandatory minimum, and a great chunk of the money is gone before it's even in the account. Take home pay drops to roughly 65k, which in SF is not a great income with the cost of living.
It seems the advertised pay to get people into jobs is a big marketing scam.
The numbers for police wages frequently use overtime to get to the 6 figure sums. Due to policing shortages you'd be pulling a lot of OT.
If you look at the rates in restaurants you easily pay 25-40 bucks for fastfood. Which explains why these managers make so much money.
I went to a Buc-ees this weekend! Another thing to note about those hefty salaries at Buc-ees is that many of them are in states with lower costs of living, and in places like Texas, where there is no state income tax. This means workers retain substantially more of their income than anyone in California. Even with inflation, the cost of living in Texas is still better than pre-inflation California.
I hate to point it out but you can't afford a house here in Australia either, we have the same problems you guys do, just years behind. Even in small outskirt towns its like 200k, if you live in suburbs and want to buy a unit/flat, 400k.
More like 400K and 600K.
Apartments and homes in rural Georgia south of Atlanta are too expensive. You are forced to get roommates or to stay with family.
A certain Aussie economist had to flee to England, when he pointed this out.
There is a nice unihabited jungle in the north. You could build a house there and get free crocs and snakes as pets.
A starter house in my Midwest state is like 275k minimum seems pretty bogus but might have to buy one eventually
A friend of mine was an engineer at an American National Lab, making a six figure salary. Unfortunately he was married to a British woman who was home sick. She finally beat him down to move back home. He couldn’t get a job as an engineer, general comment was “why are you here trying to steal our jobs”. They fell to living in a tiny caravan (man, woman, one child) parked behind her father’s pub, and my friend worked for him doing whatever was needed around the pub for rent and a little cash. Eventually they came back to the US.
Needs to dump that woman
Break up the family and make the kid grow up without a father because the wife missed home and it didn’t work out? Yes, I’m sure it was her evil plan to live in a van behind a pub.
@@Arcticwind-xw6qg Lol, people are allowed to make mistakes. End a family because a plan didn't work out? Both of us are retarded, but only one of us knows that.
There is a bum that dumpster dives near my work every day at 8 am. He makes sure to take his phone out of his pocket so he doesn't lose it.
To be fair, you can find some good stuff dumpster diving in decent areas. Especially behind electronics stores. They'll throw away cosmetically damaged stuff, and just cut the power cord. As long as you can splice the power cord back together, you can salvage some pretty good stuff. Bakeries also throw out food that's like a day old all the time. If you can establish a relationship with the guy who throws that stuff out, then you have access to perfectly good bakery items, before they're in the dumpster, which is crucial. I'm not eating something from a dumpster. I used to do these things in my "eat 69 cent cans of corn for lunch" days.
$100K here in the US was good in the 90s up to 2020. With inflation everything is 2x. So same standard of living demands $200-$250K per year income, but most people are only up 5-20% since 2020. I’d argue any less than $100K is minimum for a family even here in the mid-west.
This exactly. My household income is around 270k in New Jersey and we're only two people. But that's what it takes to afford a house, pay the bills and have some savings. You need two high earning professionals just to stay afloat. Things have gotten significantly worse after Covid. Inflation has destroyed America.
massive shortage of police officers in San Fran even with those salaries.
They would rather be in Santa Ana, no I'm not joking
Indeed. I have a son who would love to live in the Netherlands, but he is an AI researcher and Silicon Valley is the place to be. Europe is totally uncompetitive.
The Beaurocfsts have killed Europe. The gap will only get bigger as the EU is going climate crazy and moves the last remaining Industry to China and other places.
Why? The weather there is terrible.
wages in the UK have been stagnant for decades. I remember 30yrs ago looking at engineer jobs around 30-35k, and that still stands today - for sure, it can vary wildly depending on sector and specialisation, but the stagnation is real.
The same in my sector. What I earn now, £40kish, would have been a NICE salary when I left school in 2013. Now, it’s barely even lower middle class.
Yep. The UK is in a gutter.
You can see from reading these comments that most Europeans are happy to be in the lower income brackets. Doesn't seem to be a priority like it is for Americans. As an American, I find this mentality strange and unpleasant - it's hard to imagine how anyone could truly feel positive without the hope of doing better down the line. (Perhaps this is why Europeans have a reputation as being neurotic and combative towards Americans) Makes me think that this is why Europe has still not fully recovered from WW2.
Lifestyle over bank balance
I mean money is good but having free time to enjoy it is even better, I work 40 hours a week, 48 days of vacations a year, In summer i go out at 3pm everyday, idk.
I heard americans working 50 hours plus, and then having no paid vacations. I just see no point on that. I rather have time than money, plus my salary in Spain is high so i live pretty good.
if you actually dumb down your life to the things that ACTUALLY make you happy, a vast majority of ppl will not need a whole lot of money
Whats ironic about those Buc--ee's jobs is that many of those positions are in rural locations...
you know the same areas where people are supposedly to be poor.
San Francisco is funny money territory. Of course they pay INSANE amounts! But with two jobs, a little further up California, I couldn't get more then $40k a year. This "60k" average is BULLS**T. Most Americans are lucky to get over 30k a year. You're seeing the 1% shifting numbers over heavily.
I could make a few million in a few seconds in Vietnam.
In Europe you have a massive social safety net. Free college, Healthcare, retirements...etc.
Your massive social services mean you life is better than the average American. The average house in the US is 400K, Average healthcare is 30K, Average car loan is 30K...if you add it all up, you are still poor even if you make 60K
Except it's not free, it's all from taxes.
The issue are not the safety nets. It's the paperwork, beurocracy and regulation that causes stagnation.
And not even all of Europe has this. Growth rates vary rapidly even in EU states.
US house prices are far lower than European countries who tax their average workers at 50% and then force them by law to buy health insurance.
I grew up in a city surrounded by heroin and heroin dealers, before it was replaced with fentanyl. From what I understood, the heroin users were people who had jobs. Many of them still did and lived normal lives. The problem was that because they made it illegal and it was on the black market, it cost $100+ a day compared to pennies it actually cost and people couldn't make enough to support their habit and pay rent, etc. So they'd end up on the street and stealing to support their habit. I saw many construction workers and others coming every morning to buy their heroin. It was and still is the largest open air drug market in the world, so I could see it from my house.
Many people, especially conservatives, don't seem to understand that making drugs illegal leads to more crime, and more addicts, with worse outcomes for everybody. According to Dr. David Nutt, there were around 1000 heroin addicts in the UK before it was outlawed, now there are upwards of 33,000. And they were as you described before the ban. Working people with addictions. It's an area where conservatives ignore the data, and focus on completely arbitrary moral arguments and hypotheticals instead.
@@spracketskooch Yes, and it's so frustrating because there's been generations of propaganda aimed mostly at people who consider themselves conservatives. The problem is, here in the US we now have self-described "drug warrior" police kitted up in military gear going after drug users. The Iron Law of Prohibition was coined in the 1980s and still holds true.
Then people see videos of Kesington in Philly or California, not understanding that the war on drugs literally caused what they're seeing, and it makes their belief that much stronger. So they ask for "More law enforcement." Because 80 years of this has really worked, let's do it more. Now there are entire industries that rely on it being illegal.
I don't condone drug use, don't even drink alcohol, but the war on drugs has destroyed the US. We knew prohibition didn't work from 12 years of alcohol prohibition. They didn't want to give up the power though. And so they arrest and give people felonies for possession. A felony - the same thing a murderer receives.
@@CensoredConstantly I agree with literally everything you said, down to the not drinking alcohol part. I don't think any government has the right to tell adults what they can and can't ingest within the walls of their home. For better or worse, we must be allowed to make our own decisions. That used to be a fundamental principle of this country, something the majority of us agreed on. Of course I could just be romanticizing the past, but I think we actually lost that attitude.
@@spracketskooch Sadly I think you might be right, that a large portion of Americans have lost that attitude.
You have to understand that in California, they pay you x amount but you pay 30+ percent to state taxes, and then another 20+ percent to federal taxes. Yes we get robbed at gunpoint twice. Yes you get cut in half on your paychecks.
Callum would love Buckee’s
We all love the autistic beaver
Speak for yourself. If they put them in the middle of nowhere like a highway truck stop it'd be fine, but the one near me is directly adjacent to neighborhoods, shops, and businesses, and it ruins the traffic flow of that area at all hours of the day. And it's always too crowded, the parking lot and store interior are pvp enable zones
@@WafflePlaneRC Party-pooper, embrace the Beaver, embrace Chaos!
@@WafflePlaneRC negative thoughts of the beaver are anti democratic thoughts and liable to be used for evidence of Treason
@@WafflePlaneRC oh no, it's too popular. Maybe instead of just building one where everyone crowds, they should make a TON.
@@WafflePlaneRCBro is complaining his city is getting tax revenue. What a loser.
I moved to Melbourne 6 weeks ago from a town near Swindon. Why would I ever go back. I have a nice flat, great weather, entertainment, environment and work. The UK is just shit.
Melbourne has great weather? Where have I been my entire life
@@lachlanaulich3566 Melbourne has litterally penguins living in it 🤣 It's bloody cold in Winter. Also don't forget that the State can decide to experiment vaccines on you and lock you down at any moment.
You moved to Melbourne Australia? F me Swindon must've been s** if moving there was an upgrade.
Swindon has a bad rep for S England, don't know it personally. Also, living in a flat doesn't sound great 😆
@@lachlanaulich3566 I'm ginger...
Defund the government, stop paying tax
Thanks Lotus Eaters
I don't think Callum's conclusion of European's just aren't prodcutive is correct. I think we in the UK are massively getting taken advantage of:
- wages have not moved
- the british pound has massively been devalued
- taxes are some of the highest in the world, but muh nhs which you can't even see a doctore
- mass imigration has massively suppressed wages
You guys have more holidays, more wiggle-room for breaks and leaving early, really everything about your work culture and what is expected/can be expected of a worker being paid is different, and those small things have a cumulative effect. Then for union gigs you don't even get to negotiate your own wages so most people fall into a state of complacency and the wages only go up when the union needs them to go up. Fact of the matter is though, and this one isn't a fuzzy thing to grasp at, you guys don't produce anything of value for the world, Britain is mostly financial services and those are coasting on inertia, the real money-making opportunities in the world of finance are here in the states and in Asia. I know it doesn't feel good and it's a double humiliation after already losing the empire but my brother in freedom Britain is broke and not going anywhere, yes it's not all your fault but a lot of it is and collectively nobody seems up to owning it or fixing it.
@@theeccentrictripper3863 It's mostly America's fault given that the USA did literally everything in its power to throw Britain to the floor and stamp on it both during and after the World Wars.
Outside of ARM I don't really know of any big UK companies either that probably isn't helping. Also the Brexit thing hasn't seemed to reap any benefits yet, but I'm an American so what do I know.
@@RCXDerp There was no "brexit" it was voted for but the government continued giving away billions and increased flooding the country with immigrants.
@@theeccentrictripper3863absolutely correct. The British aren't exactly hard working, let's be real.
Everything's cheaper, too, I believe. And properties are probably larger.
Housing and food are no longer cheaper in USA, not in the main cities.
@@orwellwasrightabouttheleft7549 I wouldn't want to live in the main cities. That's where the blicks are
Outside of major cities - yes, everything is much cheaper. In fact, if your job doesn't require you to be in a specific area (ie working something online), you can target low income states like louisiana and mississippi and get things like land EVEN CHEAPER. Plenty of it too.
Food is way more expensive in the USA. Like 3 to 5 times more. No shops within walking distance either, so you need a car.
@PEHWR. I've seen vids on those big Walmarts, only accessible by roads, which have no pavement (sidewalk).
I was spectacularly unsuccessful in finding work in London. I accept that my education may not have helped this, history. Experience carpentry, labour, mechanics and military. Living in London I found myself commuting back to my rural village for work. In the end I moved to Japan.
American living in London here. I honestly have no idea how you guys arent homesless. I was making around 35k working construction and operating a forklift in rural Indiana with some of the cheapest cost of living while i worked on my degree. Now living here it blown my mind. The wages are about the same and it feels like a 2000% increase in cost of living. I'm sorry to see this great country in its current shape.
I used to bartend in London. I had once an American client from NYC and we chatted about tipping culture. In NYC bartenders get 12$ wages + huge tips, because "they don't make enough". In London I was on 12 pounds per hour, but apparently people don't tip because " we make a living wage in Europe". And London and NYC have similar cost of living. Thanks God Covid came so I don't work/live there anymore.
Half the wages and twice the costs, im just left wondering how its even possible
the US provides europes defense.