I have conservative family members who deliberately go for the biggest SUV with the lowest gas mileage available just to "stick it to the government." If the government told them that they couldn't drive a small car, they'd be out there shopping for a small car. It's incredibly childish.
Right. A lot of European countries use ARMs a lot more. The only other country where 30-year fixed is the norm is Denmark, as far as I know. But Europe just generally has lower interest rates.
What makes Europe free speech more free than ours?
The gist: While free speech is a constitutional right in both the US and most European countries, free speech is now controlled to a large degree by social media companies in the US.
Here's a good, short recap of a longer study on the subject from a US scholar: https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2020/01/11/study-analyzes-american-other-free-speech-traditions-suggests-inevitable-clashes
In the US: Universal healthcare. Having kids and having to think about healthcare even when we're not sick or injured is such a mental drain.
more billionaires then any other country
And a crap load of people living on or under the poverty live working two or three jobs with zero PTO, crippling student debt ratios, sky high childcare costs, no family leave, and on and on. No, you don't seem well.
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