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_ivantheterrible__ OP t1_jdwqdtp wrote

First of all thank you for your honesty and detail, i'm from a reality of paradoxes, for instance healthcare is "free" but it's so inefficient most people turn to private clinics anyway, where they have to wait for their inexorable fate in unending lines. The traffic is most of the times unexplicably unruly, and public transportation is insufficient and inefficient. Bureaucracy is extremely complicated and slow and the taxes are high for no reason at all considering the lack of public service in every aspect possible. Also the weather here is absolute hell, the mediterranean has slowly transformed into a sort of rainforest without the forest, extremely hot and humid and full of bugs in the summer, and unending rain in the winter, the last time i've seen snow was like five years ago and it lasted for 25 minutes. So yes, i'm aware that the housing prices and the operating costs can be a real pain but from my point of view i'm just escaping from hell (lol). I think i will visit anyway the next time i'm in the US, just to see how everything feels.

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