Unemployment, rise in the cost of living and heavy taxes are now a huge
problem in most of Europe... And, they're only getting worse.
From what I know, people in the UK earn even more than in the US... But, as
for people who, like me, live in Southern Europe, travelling is not a cheap
thing to do. Be it long distances (between different countries) and even
short ones, now, because of the spike that has occurred in energy prices.
The last time I did it, a travel from Lisbon to Barcelona and back, for
example, was about a third of what is presently the minimum wage. And, this
was before energy prices started rising. So, I don't know how expensive it is
know.
If you talk about Northern and North-Western Europe, you can put them in the
same bag as the US, in terms of the amount of money people earn. But, as for
the more southern and eastern countries in Europe, you're talking about a
different reality. And, life here is closer to (although not as bad, but
getting there, now) what it must be in underdeveloped Latin American
countries.
In my country (Portugal), not talking about the huge amount of people that
are now unemployed, the ones that still have their jobs are being hit with a
huge amount of taxes, which have very much destroyed their previous quality
of life.
