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hippy
I hate… how expensive the US has become. Well no that’s not quite true - I’m ambivalent about the absolutes and more accurately I hate the massive wealth inequality.
I’m currently earning a decent living, but I’d genuinely want to double it, to move to the US based on my time there last week. And it hasn’t always been this way - I’ve visited plenty of times in the past.
Nice restaurants (not Michelin Star) are extortionate. Quality, organic food is so expensive. Attractions such as museums and - specifically this time - Disneyland - are an exercise in gouging as much as possible from the punter.
London cannot hold a torch to it.
I don’t know how families on average income make it work. It’s terrible. :-(