Reply #15: Gasoline has always been higher there, BUT

[SoCalDem]

there is a vibrant public transportation system in place there, and like you said, they have no health care issues like we have here..That adds an additional amount to their "pay"..

Unless things have changed a lot , there is/was a "friendlier" approach to "redundancy" and to higher education too..

and there is the "holiday" issue too...

Overall, I think non-American countries tend to value the quality of life issues a lot more than we do./