Jack Albrecht
1 min readAug 12, 2021

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What a load of horse shit. I'll only respond to one point here because this article is just garbage. I live in Austria but have lived in NL and stayed a lot in Spain, England, Belgium, CZ, and a few other countries. I'll use Austria here specifically as an example.

Re: #6. You want bureaucracy? Let's compare paperwork after going to the doctor a few times. Oh, right, in Austria the only paperwork is referral slips and your prescriptions unless you want to go to a private hospital (yeah, that whole story about how M4A kills private medicine and private insurance was complete bullshit).

How about taxes? You want to compare the US tax code to the Austrian tax code? It is about 3x more time-consuming for me to file my US taxes than my Austrian taxes. My Austrian tax return is around 20 pages (it's complicated). My US tax return is around 100 pages for the same fucking information. I can't compare business returns since I don't have to file for my company in the US.

I could write pages covering every other point you list, but what is the point. Your article is horse shit.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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