Someone Asks People “What Is Criminally Overpriced?” And Here’s 35 Insightful Answers

Can we ask why people live in Russia instead? Just to see some variety?

You think its easy for us to just move to another country? We aren't part of agreements with other counties like the EU where you can just move and get a job.

Well, I'm originally from Brazil, but i have lived in Europe, Africa, and Asia. I currently live in the United States. My wife is an American, born and raised about 20 km from where we live. We recently moved to a different county, and it's been one year and she's still struggling with culture shock. That's a different county. Same language, same governor, different library. A year ago I was offered jobs in Dublin and Edinburgh. I thought it would at least be English, so that would help. But I'm glad I stayed in the US. Our marriage would not have survived. She is terrified of raising our girls overseas. All the statistics will not sway her. You become accustomed to a thing i suppose. My hope is my girls go to university in Europe and stay there.

It costs money to leave. A LOT of money. And other nations don't want us any more than the US does.

I recently found out that countries will not let you move there based on your medical history. So imagine all the the things people need in the US but can’t afford because they’re too expensive and try to move somewhere else but can’t because they’re not deemed healthy. Countries are literally discriminating based on pre-existing conditions.

Lots of us don't. And especially where medical issues are involved, tons of countries will not allow you to immigrate if you are sick, disabled etc. Tons of countries won't allow you to come if you are autistic for example, or needing dialysis, etc. The people most affected by the atrocities of the American insurance profit system are the exact people who literally can't leave.

I'm not going to get into the last sentence....but in the US, medication is subsided by the us, for the rest of the world's common sense in saying, "I'm not paying that". Here, corrupti....er, sorry, the proper term here is Lobbyists, ensure that our lawmakers keep the prices insanely high, so they can make their obscene profits.

Yes they are! Before the pandemic Pharmaceuticals and anything Medical was WAY OVERPRICED! Then you have the pandemic and now, prices of things are so OVERPRICED, it's just not worth it anymore

Many of us don't, but can't afford to move.

It’s not want to so much as well here I am.

Most people in the US can't afford to move.

I am myself that too. But tbh there's good and bad parts to every country. Not one is perfect in everything.

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I’d move to another country in a heartbeat if I could afford it. A lot of us feel trapped. Because we are.

We don't really "live" here (there); We just had the misfortune of not being born in a civilized Country.

You know with all the s**t that's going on this country I'd still prefer to live here and I'm not rich by any means. Besides with the exception of the Baltic countries, New Zealand and a handful of other countries, it's not exactly paradise anywhere else on the planet. People in the US and for example people in Germany are going to suffer or die just the same from the inevitable effects of climate change or nuclear war or scarce resources. Cheap medicine is nice for sure but it's just not everything that counts.

I think the people who want to live here are the people who have the choice to leave and the people who don't want to live here are the ones most impacted by our DuMass attitudes with the consequence that they often can't leave or find better opportunities and some of the not-so-good people in charge consider this a feature, not a bug, but will happily divide and scapegoat these people rather than fix their problems. It's worth noting that the US is also very politically diverse despite our system being essentially locked into two parties at the national level, and that means a lot of what you hear is only true in some portion of the US. Also the phenomenon of bad powerful people abusing other people is by no means unique to the US or even so called "western civilization".

I spent 10 years in the US and it's an amazing country in a lot of aspects. However, their lack of universal healthcare, "free" college etc., is what caused me to move back to Europe. Being a single mother with a pre-existing condition, there was no way I could afford to stay there.

I still want to live here. I just want conservative christian Republicans to leave. It wouldn't happen overnight but we would solve so many problems. Unpopular opinion alert: we've overspent on our military, but that's because certain *cough* countries weren't spending anything at all. Is it 100% our fault that we've continued to overspend. Yes. But there has been decades of the opportunity cost of universal health care for us was keeping the world safer for you. Not for nothing, after hundreds of years of F'ing the world, it takes balls for Europeans to have any judgment.

We don't but we can't afford to move 🤷🏼‍♀️

getting really sick and tired of you a******s always America bashing on here

You mean other than being as far away from Russia and China as worldly possible?

For a lot of people, it's not that they don't want to leave, but rather that they can't afford to leave

The bills for health care and education are so high they can't afford to save up enough to leave.

The US tax code is written such, that if a US citizen works outside the US they will still pay US taxes. Even if they do not, or have never lived in the US. The blue passport means you will fund US taxes. But you're still required to pay the taxes of the new nation you reside in. That's a whole lot of income you're gonna need to make to give away for dual taxes and survival. If you decide that you no longer want to be a US citizen, you have to pay an "Exit Tax" to renounce citizenship. But then you have to be wealthy enough, or the right kind of educated and degreed to get into other counties. As for why ppl continue to come here.....American propaganda is strong. This is the "Land of milk and honey" where life will be easy. Achieve that American dream. You don't realize until it's too late that this place sux.

I can't afford to move to your country.

I’ve been raised here. All my family lives here. Everything I know about comes from here. I don’t have a passport. I can’t afford to move. I can’t just leave whenever I want to.

Who said anything about want? Most of us can't afford to leave.

We don’t

To be fair, I don't know how many of us actually do want to live here. We're just kind of stuck here.

We don't.

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We don't.

I would love to move to Australia but I understand they require a minimum half a million dollars in your savings. They do not want you to be an economic burden to the government. Many European countries also have minimum wealth conditions for emigrating to them. Someone told me Canada refuses to let anyone over 50 years old move there. I do not know if that is true. In America, if one were to promote an immigration policy like that, you would be considered racist. So why are anti immigrant policies not criticized in other countries?

Some of us our trapped from mistakes made at 19 and can never leave 😫

We live here because of the excitement, any minute we might be murdered by someone with a gun or using their vehicle as an assault weapon. The Ukraine is dull in comparison. We are also attacking overpopulation by killing the kiddies before they have a chance to breed. What's not to like.

I get the feeling they cannot afford the flight to move away and start again. Most of them are working three or four jobs just to keep the lights on and are in debt.

We don't want to live here. That's why we've priced medical treatment out of reach so we can all die faster lol

It costs too much to move away.

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We have the Grand Canyon AND New York City.

lol. ya ok. sure my dude

the majority of the profits come from US market. the US subsidizes the R and D of big pharma. plus our FDA must add a layer of bureaucracy, cost and corruption. The US subsidizes the cost of drugs for other nations. isn't that what the world wants with drugs, food, energy, security ? the affluent to pay more than their fair share for the betterment of the have nots ( or exploiters)

Get over yourself

Because despite it's faults it's still the greatest effing country in the world that despite being one of the younger upstarts saved Europe's but from total dictatorship twice last century. You are welcome. And yes, I have traveled through about half of the "civilized" world and actually have an informed opinion of what other countries are really like

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Freedom has a large price

I did. It was beautiful.

Curiously the inventor never patented it explicitly so that people could afford it - which seems to work nearly everywhere in the world but the US.

Exactly! Instead of making the relatives of the person who died pay a lot of money, funerals should be a free service or at least not criminally overpriced

Worse than that. Never bury anything valuable with your loved ones. It will never make it into the ground with them. Found out the hard way.

And doing so with a smile on their face at that.

I beat this. I'm a disabled veteran, service connected. I didn't die then, so now they have to bury me free later.

Pre-plan. Easier & cheaper.