If it were my home

[Tebonas]

Since I'm your gimmick account the confusion is entirely your fault, you know. 

[Sheepherder]

Austrian?  Is that like an Italian who wishes he was German?

[Tebonas]

If those were the two choices, it would be hard to decide.

But I'm fine with what I am. 

[WindupAtheist]

Madagascar is in most ways a typical Third World African dump, but if I lived there instead of the USA I'd have an 83% smaller chance of getting AIDS. How odd.

[Ironwood]

The website also rates how ugly you are, so it's probably factoring in the lack of sex thing.

[tgr]

If The United States were your home instead of Norway you would...
have 2.9 times more chance of being unemployed
experience 80% more of a class divide
have 72.96% more chance of dying in infancy
use 54.67% less electricity
be 6 times more likely to have HIV/AIDS
consume 33.49% more oil
have 26.88% more babies
spend 48.68% more money on health care
make 20.82% less money
die 1.84 years sooner

I think I'll stay in Norway.

[Lantyssa]

If The United States were your home instead of The United States you would...
move if you're smart.

[slog]

This is kind of retarded since the percentages don't tell you anything.  If my my healthcare costs would go from 10 dollars a year to 20 dollars a year!  and my taxes go down from 60,000 a year to 50,0000 a year they would show as:

Healthcare costs go up 100%
Taxes go down 17%.

Which implies I'd be better off, when in fact I'm out $9,990 a year.

[lamaros]

Except of course you would generally be expected to know something about the country you live in so as to make the comparison.

[tgr]

And the numbers are in there if you click on the headlines.

[FatuousTwat]

Jesus, is there anywhere in the world that has more of a class divide than the US?

[Ironwood]

No Untouchables.

[Tebonas]

This is kind of retarded since the percentages don't tell you anything.  If my my healthcare costs would go from 10 dollars a year to 20 dollars a year!  and my taxes go down from 60,000 a year to 50,0000 a year they would show as:

Healthcare costs go up 100%
Taxes go down 17%.

Which implies I'd be better off, when in fact I'm out $9,990 a year.

Well, thats a fair assumption. Lets see:

USA 46400 -  6719 = 39681 / 1797 = 22,082 / hour

Austria: 39400 - 3608 = 35792 / 1483  = 24,139 / hour



Guess I'll have to work 3 more hours per week now to catch up to you moneywise. So please, everybody post more here on f13 so I don't get bored.  

[Sky]

Cost of health care also doesn't count the quality or availability of treatment. There's something to be said for walking into a hospital and getting treatment without having to take out a loan for it. I don't understand why that's such a difficult concept for people.