In Germany showing the final price including taxes is a legal requirement.

Where the cars are twice as expensive and the paychecks are half as large.

The comment above is on-topic. Europe has laws about price tags including all taxes and fees.

Your knee-jerk reaction is not.

I don't think it's off topic. zoover2020 is inviting Americans to Europe because the prices are honest. eurocars is giving a reason why moving to Europe is not a good idea (salaries are atrocious).

and the other reason is that "cars are twice as expensive", which ignores the context completely, otherwise it would specify whether the cars are twice as expensive on paper, or twice as expensive in reality.

Though most of the cars also are half the size, so maybe it balances out

And yet, people are twice as happy.

We are getting way off topic here, but I don’t know how anyone with even a touch of SAD manages in Europe. London is as far north as the southern tip of Alaska.

Hello from Helsinki. I have a therapy lamp on my breakfast table and on my desktop at work, and it helps a tiny bit but not much. People clearly have different reactions, and I guess mine is worse than that of most people. But of course, I mainly meet people who are still capable of functioning.

Suicide rates peaks during summers, not winters. Some things are worse during winters, but other things are worse during summers, so SAD is just a preference thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_effects_on_suicide_ra...

Ok. So sub out SAD for “people that hate long, dark winters where the sun barely shines even for the few hours it’s up” and the question stands.

This largely depends on where you live on either side of the pond. Moving from Canada to Germany, the biggest problem was not the lack of daylight, but the lack of winter sports. Winter here is just a worse summer.

I teach people to schedule their vacations for January-March, not the pleasant summer months.

Even from Canada, you probably moved north. Toronto is as far north as Nice, on the French Mediterranean. Of all the major Canadian cities, only Vancouver is as far north as southern Germany.

I did, but it's still a minor issue compared to the lack of things that make winter enjoyable.