Re:A Kid, a Minor Bike Accident and a $19,000 Medical Bill
by tephra on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:53AM
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Not sure why you are getting downvoted for what seems like a generally curious question. I'll try and give some answer from the point of view of a Swede who is a serious "USPhile" in many ways (and someone who in his younger days wanted to move there).
- Parental Leave: When I got my first child it's hard to understate how much being able to be off work for 8 months with ~80% of my full pay. I'm now going off for 6 months with my second child in February. And I can save up parental leave for a long time meaning I can take longer vacations to spend summers with them as well.
- Healthcare: Again once you have experienced the true value of universal healthcare you will not want to go back. My second son go a bad infection and had to spend 2 weeks in the hospital with his mother. Cost (excluding what we paid in taxes of course...): 20-30 bucks for buying candy (i.e it could have been 0 ;)).
- Education: All higher education is of course free for all EU citizens. It used to be free for everyone in the world but the unfortunately removed that a few years ago.
There's of course a lot more one could point out (like for example high speed internet access pretty much everywhere, good mobile connection speed pretty much everywhere).
Of course this comes with a cost of paying more in taxes (happy to do it!). I'm not the biggest fan of snow as well.
- Parental Leave: When I got my first child it's hard to understate how much being able to be off work for 8 months with ~80% of my full pay. I'm now going off for 6 months with my second child in February. And I can save up parental leave for a long time meaning I can take longer vacations to spend summers with them as well.
- Healthcare: Again once you have experienced the true value of universal healthcare you will not want to go back. My second son go a bad infection and had to spend 2 weeks in the hospital with his mother. Cost (excluding what we paid in taxes of course...): 20-30 bucks for buying candy (i.e it could have been 0 ;)).
- Education: All higher education is of course free for all EU citizens. It used to be free for everyone in the world but the unfortunately removed that a few years ago.
- The everymans right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#Sweden
There's of course a lot more one could point out (like for example high speed internet access pretty much everywhere, good mobile connection speed pretty much everywhere).
Of course this comes with a cost of paying more in taxes (happy to do it!). I'm not the biggest fan of snow as well.