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how many of them really know what the difference is? most only know the stereotypes and not the reality of living there. I've spent about a week in both - enough to know that both are actually nice places and that the common stereotypes are like all a gross exaguration with only a little truth.
As someone who moved from the US to Germany almost two years ago I'd like to chime in here for anyone wondering if the two countries are really similar.
They're not, Germany is way better. Maybe not for everyone, definitely not in all aspects, but it's like teleporting to the future by 30 years.
I've lived in Kansas, Iowa, California, Florida, Colorado. I'm now living in Baden-Württemberg. Simply by moving to Germany I now walk or train everywhere (no car), my vacation doubled (6 weeks not including holidays), I have worker protections (it's not as easy to fire me), unemployment would cover something fuckin crazy like 80% of my current salary if I was fired (I'm not worried about this but what a relief to know society wouldn't just grind me up if I got a short streak of bad luck), medicine is easier to get and healthcare is a marginal cost every month (compared to self hundred in the US), I make slightly more money after conversion and my take home is roughly the same (so the whole taxes are so high thing is offset by cost of living and line items being removed like healthcare and car). The grocers are better here but the restaurants were almost universally better in the US, at least compared to where I'm currently living. I have a quick path to citizenship, people speak great English in general (but I'm learning German cause I want this to be a permanent move). And I can make day trips to multiple countries' major cities by train.
It's night and day. Again, it's not all sunshine and rainbows, it's not necessary the best at things everyone may care about, but the average metric rose a meaningful amount simply by crossing a border (lol to simplify the process).
The US is just way behind in the metrics that matter, human-centric, quality of life metrics. I say all of this not to say "wow US bad", to gloat or what have you, but to say "it can get better and it could get better quickly if political power was redistributed to those who cared about quality of life instead of GDP or their stock portfolio.
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You did not list mississippi as a place you have lived and so you have no way to be sure there isn't something about mississippi culture you would like enough better.
actually you didn't list any culture factors and culture is very important inithis discussion.
I almost upvoted this as very funny, likable satire. Oops!