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    Yup! And all we get for it is healthcare, childcare, college tuition, pensions, sick leave, maternity leave…

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      Don’t forget reliable and comfortable public transport and properly maintained roads and public infrastructure.

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        properly maintained roads

        Laughs as he drives across the border into Belgium and has a filling shaken out

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        yeah, in a few well-marketed cities you usually find on postcards. “Europe has great public transportation, I was in Munich last week…”, right, because whole continent = one city.
        In majority of the cities and countryside it’s either get a car or get fucked.

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      I try explaining this to fellow Americans that you end up paying much less in the end and never have the stress of how you’re going to afford this stuff (or possibly even lose everything to a sudden health problem) but it falls on deaf ears if they’ve already been brainwashed. They refuse to hear that other countries have things figured out to make the lives of their citizens much more enjoyable.