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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by abaya
Thanks for the info, Cyn. The question is, would you live here, given what you know about the Icelandic health care system and how much of your income would be going to fund it? Personally, based on the health care system alone, I'd rather live here than in the US... and I wouldn't mind seeing something like the Scandinavian system implemented in the US, either. Yes, Iceland is small, but the other Nordic countries are not so small, and they do manage their health care just as well (in my opinion). Just a thought.
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I'd love to live in Iceland, not based on the healthcare system available and not because of the promiscuous hot Icelandic women. It is strictly because of the locale.
As an American citizen the problem with living in another country (expatriation) is that I am liable to pay US taxes and the taxes of the expatriating country. So it is a double tax hit.
My choices for living places are based more on my ability to have quality of life and disposable income. Healthcare is only a factor if I'm not gainfully employed by a company that provides healthcare benefits to their employees, that is a slim to none proposition. I'm quite selfish when it comes to spending the money that I earn. I'm happy to give it to friends and family as needed with no expectation of reciprocity, but strangers on the other hand, I'm not so fast in giving it out.
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