Everyone's criticizing the US, but I can't name a country that is doing things right. I used to think of Switzerland but I watched the Pete Santinello travel video on Youtube and saw they have their own very serious problems over there. So now, I can't really think of a single country.
I think the financial advantages and probably the country neutrality (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_neutrality?wprov=sfla1 ) are a big plus. People often move just a few kilometers from the border (in France obviously, where the wages are much lower ; working in Switzerland and living in France, if you do things right, your quality of live might be 2-3 times, maybe more.
But I didn’t do thing right lol. I started with something like 2600€ (adjusted to the Swiss equivalent, worth 1.1 €) monthly, without taxes. By curiosity I searched for an equivalent salary in Switzerland, for my current job+experience : I would have earned 85k€ yearly when I started, because quite a lot of the tax money we owe is actually directly paid by our employer, including income tax.
I worked night shifts for the last 3 years in a psychiatric hospital, a huge, public one, which means a few things : we often have very ill patients, one of whom sent three colleague in sick leave, one pal got a full blown knee in the balls, and had his third children the next day... half the doctors are petrified when they see that person (he can get whatever he wants by being threatening, despite that fact very being nonsensical.
In the last 10 years roughly $120, 000 of my taxes have gone to healthcare. In that time I have gotten three stiches.
Crazy. I could buy two full sets of new teeth with that money. I often think that dental care is way too expensive. Of course, IMO that sounds like a little boring job, then they have to find a place to work, associates who can share the building, and also share the assistants and secretaries, and the products used for dental surgery... but I think they still earn comfortably enough money
