When I was there last USA was much higher for food etc. energy is cheaper - renting in some areas is much higher then uk average (New York/san Fran etc).
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Again, it appears like it is more expensive because the numbers are different. So to a visitor, it’ll look like they’re paying more for food, etc. But locals are earning more in comparison, but they also spend more bc numbers are higher. Percentage wise of your income, you end up spending (cntd)
I know locals are earning more - when comparing costs being higher when we can compare salaries directly. My company as an example pays an uplift when people go to the USA due to the higher cost of living.
So if you look at only the numbers, it’ll look like someone in the US is earning more. But they’re also spending more bc the numbers (not just cost of living) are higher. They could be (and usually are) spending a similar percentage of their (cntd)
This is exactly the point - if you are offered the same salary to play in say New York as Manchester you need to take home a lot more in New York to cover rent, bills, family costs.
Put it this way: player A makes $125k in the US when they’d make maybe £65k in the UK. They’d look at that and think, ‘wow, I can make lots more money in the US, salaries are higher, I should move there!’ But what they’re not factoring in is that a grocery bill may have been £65 in (cntd)
So the draw that Tim discussed originally is deceptive in some ways, in that players can think they’re earning more than they would in the UK but they don’t know about the higher living numbers until they arrive. Whether or not that affects the (cntd)
decision making process down the line as more people understand this dilemma or whether the bright lights of ‘I’m living in America’ continue to be a huge draw, who knows. (Cntd)
But my overall point is that it’s more complicated than numbers suggest and people may think they’re getting one thing but it turns into something else. Anyway, feels like we’ve dragged this one on long enough. /fin
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So if you look at only the numbers, it’ll look like someone in the US is earning more. But they’re also spending more bc the numbers (not just cost of living) are higher. They could be (and usually are) spending a similar percentage of their (cntd)
Put it this way: player A makes $125k in the US when they’d make maybe £65k in the UK. They’d look at that and think, ‘wow, I can make lots more money in the US, salaries are higher, I should move there!’ But what they’re not factoring in is that a grocery bill may have been £65 in (cntd)
So the draw that Tim discussed originally is deceptive in some ways, in that players can think they’re earning more than they would in the UK but they don’t know about the higher living numbers until they arrive. Whether or not that affects the (cntd)