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Re:Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France by weberc2 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @05:32PM (#14684465)
Rent is far cheaper in the U.S. My last apartment was $450/month for 600 sq ft in a good neighborhood. I paid $650 for less than half of that in rural France.

Food is probably cheaper too, though not as dramatically.

I'm sure there are lots of perks to living in Europe, but rent is not among them.

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Re:Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France by romwell on Sunday July 02, 2017 @11:14PM (#14685629)
Where the hell are you living in this country?

Just curious, 'cause the rent in places like Waterloo, IA is about twice the number you quoted.

And there's not much going on in Waterloo, IA.

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Re:Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France by weberc2 on Monday July 03, 2017 @12:05AM (#14685759)
For 600 sq ft? That's not hard to find anywhere in the Midwest. Here are dozens of results for Waterloo, IA for below $600, many of which are much larger than 600 sq ft:

https://www.zillow.com/homes/21174_rid/42.570466,-92.248879,...

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Re:Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France by dna_polymerase on Sunday July 02, 2017 @05:40PM (#14684504)
> Rent Prices in Germany are 29.77% lower than in United States

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu...

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Re:Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France by weberc2 on Sunday July 02, 2017 @06:07PM (#14684600)
Those figures don't normalize for apartment size. The "cost to buy" figures do, however, and they show the US costing less than half the price in Germany.
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Re:Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France by nraynaud on Monday July 03, 2017 @04:43AM (#14686824)
Strange, to me it's the converse experience, my appartement in downtown Montpellier, is cheaper and bigger than my girlfriend's appartement in south Scottsdale, AZ.
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