I don't get it, as an American living happily in Scandinavia, but a lot of my euro tech coworkers idolize the US for the income potential and "freedoms".

They can't ever articulate the freedoms, I think we just have good propaganda, but the desire is certainly there.

Most Scandinavian countries have better right-to-roam than the US, and better job flexibility because of country-wide healthcare.

But when talking to younger Swedes, they love our freedom of speech. For example. You're not supposed to notice who is doing most of the recent drastic increase in rape, for example.

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