The highest wages are indeed lower, but disposable income is higher (due to lower CoL), higher QoL, more stability, less need for emergency fund (due to robust healthcare, unemployment support, worker’s rights, less guns, etc.) and cheaper accommodation.
You can buy a good house with a yard from $20-30 k in famously expensive Sweden (although you’ll need a car then as well at another $2-12 k). In the IG reel I saw it also included a couple hectares of industrial forest you can farm to offset costs.
The highest wages are indeed lower, but disposable income is higher (due to lower CoL), higher QoL, more stability, less need for emergency fund (due to robust healthcare, unemployment support, worker’s rights, less guns, etc.) and cheaper accommodation.
You can buy a good house with a yard from $20-30 k in famously expensive Sweden (although you’ll need a car then as well at another $2-12 k). In the IG reel I saw it also included a couple hectares of industrial forest you can farm to offset costs.
Just $20-30k? That seems implausible to me, unless it’s very remote.
Can’t say I checked closely, saw it on an IG reel that showed a bunch of properties priced thereabouts at a couple hours drive from the large cities.
They also made it clear that you wouldn’t be able to find that in any city.
I took a couple minutes to dig up the tool they used: hemnet.se so you could have a look yourself.