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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Just another example. In my country an MRI of brain will cost you about $25, a caries treatment is about $30. I'm talking about good private clinics, not some free municipal ones. Now how much you will pay for that in the USA? 10x time more? No, in the States you will pay 100x times more for the same services. So to be able to afford the same services as here, you must earn 100x times more there.
I really would like to find some index which reflects the real dependence between the earnings and the cost of life.
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Now add the costs of owning a house, two cars, buying the latest gadgets, etc. Americans have been brainwashed into spending on shit they don't need. Remember when the board had all the threads of people boasting what they had bought.