[0]: https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_count...
[1]: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/
And the quality of state-provided healthcare is significantly worse than in US. Most people with means get private medical insurance skipping the one purchased by their taxes entirely.
Eastern Europe has two huge problem completely overshadowing their advantage from less regulation: a strong culture of corruption instilled by the years of communism and a gigantic brain drain to a west more than happy to lower their own costs (in health care as well) with the best of the cheap, highly educated Eastern workforce.
And countries with comparable stats like waiting times pay less overall.
Don't die on this hill, it's not worth it.
It's the hill I live on, so I will probably die here.
And I also do not enjoy the hard left turn of the recent Western politics. Although I am sure they will realize their mistake eventually and turn back to the principles that brought their prosperity - I am afraid it will be a bumpy ride.
Healthcare is 2-3-4 times <<more expensive in the US>>.
Education is generally <<free or very cheap outside the US>>.
Housing is expensive outside the US, too, a bit less so.
I feel the problem is not regulation in the US, it's that you half ass it. Americans are all about "rugged individualism" and "small government" when advanced societies are advanced because large groups of people work well together, which is the opposite of individualism. I've been in places where there is an extreme emphasis on individualism and they generally they don't look good (for example Eastern Europe does it due to a huge negative legacy of forced collectivism).