• finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    26 days ago

    Lmao. “Splendor” is certainly a word that only a conservative-owned paper like WSJ would use to describe the suburbs.

      • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
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        26 days ago

        That’s noted in the article as well though

        When Ron Visser and his American wife were weighing where to settle down—the U.S. or the Netherlands—they calculated that though Visser made about $40,000 less in the Netherlands than his wife did in the U.S., the difference in salaries was erased by an equivalent gap in standard of living.

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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      26 days ago

      As a European who has visited US suburbs, “splendor” is certainly not a word I’d use for them.