I often hear how high USA salaries are compared to EU salaries, for instance. This is true. If you are a doctor, an engineer, an attorney - highly-educated, highly-skilled jobs pay very well. Unfortunately, most citizens of the USA do not have good jobs. Most regular Americans in the USA have relatively low-paying jobs that don’t pay much more than EU jobs compared to the cost of living. Being paid $35,000 a year (maybe something close to 28,000 Euros or so), is poverty in the majority of places in the USA. Usually workers don’t get health insurance with jobs. I just want to make sure anyone considering the move understands that the higher salaries are used so people can pay out of pocket for these higher costs the government does not handle but their standard of living is probably very similar to that of someone earning 20,000€ a year in Spain, for instance.