Norway was the first country in the world to eradicate poverty, and as a result there's not one single soul that lives in that country that doesn't have what is necessary to exist as a decent human being. Europe in general is much more people -oriented than the US. Europeans pay a little bit more taxes but nobody needs to worry about not having medical insurance or the hardship that comes with one losing his job. I read somewhere that 90% of americans are only two weeks away from being bankrupt if anything bad happens, like getting sick, or the company going under,or anything that would translate into not getting that paycheck for more than a couple of weeks.
Here everybody wants the comfort of their own home(even though it becomes yours after 15 or 30 years, and after the payments you've made represent four times the amount you actually bought the house for), and that's how the concept of Suburbia came into play. It's like saying,I don't want to know my neighbours, and I don't want my kids to do anything else but go to school and sit in front of the computer all day. Americans have this hard to understand mentality of isolating themselves, the "castle syndrome",this ridiculous sense of property that actually erects walls between people. Not a lot of people own their apartment in Europe. A house, unless inherited , is out of reach for probably 90% of the population. The european countries don't have the land to build 7,000 square feet mansions with a four car garage for two old farts to live in it. It is a disgrace anyways. Anybody with a little bit of common sense knows that this lavish lifestyle is nothing but a form of living in oblivion. I've met people hiding behind ; It's my money and I can do whatever I want. It's a free country! It's all bullcrap and everybody with a brain and a sense of humility would agree with me. It's called living beyond ones means while suffering of the imortality syndrome. After all we're all on a planet that spins through space...
