I travel to the UK, France, and Germany multiple times per year to meet with customers and suppliers.
If you add up funding my own retirement, paying for my private health insurance, paying for my kids to go to (state) university, having to have two evil automobiles, and paying the electric bill on my palatial manor (4-bdrm rancher with garage shed and large backyard), and subtract all of those expenses from my income I >>>STILL<<< make so much more money than anyone sitting across the table from me in Europe that I might as well be Mansa Musa the Golden King of Mali and them a homeless bum starving to death under a bridge.
It is my impression that most of the people moving to the EU are "entrepreneurs" with app ideas or "digital nomads" who want to run a social media campaign from MacBook in a cafe while engineers and scientists who want to work on cool stuff and have labs with a budget big enough to buy test gear and do something keep trying to score a US visa.
Let’s chat after you receive your first astronomical out-of-network health insurance bill or experience the joy of joining the 30% of health claims routinely denied by U.S. insurance companies....Unless, of course, you’re a VP of something. In that case, your effort to pass yourself off as the quintessential 'regular Joe' is comedy gold.
Cancer is either treatable or not. You either get cured or you die, and I don't care if I die broke. If it is curable I'll pay for it. If it is incurable, I'll go broke: so what?
That being said if I lived in Europe I'd have to hope that a football star is willing to auction his shoes to fund my trip to the US for treatment and I don't want that.
> That being said if I lived in Europe I'd have to hope that a football star is willing to auction his shoes to fund my trip to the US for treatment and I don't want that.
Generally, most of these cases where people are raising money to travel for treatment are about... dubious treatment which your insurance probably doesn't cover either. Evidence-based cancer treatment is of course available in Europe.
My employer is a multinational engineering firm.
I travel to the UK, France, and Germany multiple times per year to meet with customers and suppliers.
If you add up funding my own retirement, paying for my private health insurance, paying for my kids to go to (state) university, having to have two evil automobiles, and paying the electric bill on my palatial manor (4-bdrm rancher with garage shed and large backyard), and subtract all of those expenses from my income I >>>STILL<<< make so much more money than anyone sitting across the table from me in Europe that I might as well be Mansa Musa the Golden King of Mali and them a homeless bum starving to death under a bridge.
It is my impression that most of the people moving to the EU are "entrepreneurs" with app ideas or "digital nomads" who want to run a social media campaign from MacBook in a cafe while engineers and scientists who want to work on cool stuff and have labs with a budget big enough to buy test gear and do something keep trying to score a US visa.
Let’s chat after you receive your first astronomical out-of-network health insurance bill or experience the joy of joining the 30% of health claims routinely denied by U.S. insurance companies....Unless, of course, you’re a VP of something. In that case, your effort to pass yourself off as the quintessential 'regular Joe' is comedy gold.
>In that case, your effort to pass yourself off as the quintessential 'regular Joe' is comedy gold.
I, an individual contributor, have the same HDHP that the CEO does-- with maxxed-out HSA of course.
Your maxxed-out HSA will not save you if cancer comes.
You're still gambling.
Nothing can save me if cancer comes.
Cancer is either treatable or not. You either get cured or you die, and I don't care if I die broke. If it is curable I'll pay for it. If it is incurable, I'll go broke: so what?
That being said if I lived in Europe I'd have to hope that a football star is willing to auction his shoes to fund my trip to the US for treatment and I don't want that.
> That being said if I lived in Europe I'd have to hope that a football star is willing to auction his shoes to fund my trip to the US for treatment and I don't want that.
Generally, most of these cases where people are raising money to travel for treatment are about... dubious treatment which your insurance probably doesn't cover either. Evidence-based cancer treatment is of course available in Europe.
It sounds like your employer could save a lot of costs by hiring remote workers in the countries you mentioned.
Nevertheless, I work in the US and cannot afford the things you listed.
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