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So glad to hear that his unimaginably privileged kids will be better off in France. I think they would probably do pretty damn well just about anywhere. Hell, I'd move to France too if I could do so in a financially sustainable way (spoiler, I don't think I could).
I think that's the point. They could be anywhere and they choose not USA.
Do you think getting a job in France and living like French people do not to be a financially viable option?
Considering most Americans couldn't even afford to buy a one-way ticket to France with cash-on-hand, the costs and logistics of actually moving to another country are a moot point. Not to mention the additional costs of securing residency and eventually citizenship.
Most Americans can't even bear the thought of moving a couple states away for fear of losing all of their social safety nets in existing friends/family.
I guess it's different if you're a childless, perpetually single loner tho.
People living in places considerably poorer than the US do travel to other countries, they do secure residency and get jobs. While I have met several people in America complaining about the hardships of life, which I do reckon definitely exist in the US, I have also seen them not recognising the great amount of riches they had. I did move several times and I lived in different continents.
While being able to afford a plane ticket is a much better way to move somewhere, it is not something necessary. I went to work in China as a factory worker and asking nicely to the company over there they agreed to pay my ticket.
Indeed, travelling with no children is definitely easier.
My point here is not much about the fact that everyone should move all the time or that you should do so to enjoy your life; the point is that if you want to go to France just go there and don't complain about the financial viability of the thing.
I think you're conflating the wealth of the nation and the wealth of individuals. Saying that if you really want to go to France it's possible, you just need to sell or abandon your belongings, walk away from your debt, abandon your family and travel by steerage on a cargo ship to get to France and live illegally because you don't qualify for any type of long term residency and you also can no longer return home because you'll be homeless and left to die in the street is... Unrealistic.
A very significant number of Americans simply do not have the resources to fail at something like that.