r/povertyfinance • u/pastisPastisBandole • Jan 24 '23

You’re all crazy Success/Cheers

This is not a tip or anything useful but I feel like I need to say it.

Just reading some of your stories I came to realise that Americans are made of a different thing.

You often have multiple jobs, sometimes study and the same time, have kids or taking care of someone. Have no healthcare, pay everything out of pocket and somehow you still make it. And for the most part with a smile.

You guys probably don’t realise this but it’s unbelievable for a lot of folks in Europe. You’re very hard workers and kuddos for that.

Keep it up.

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u/pastisPastisBandole Jan 24 '23

Just needed to say something about it because it makes no sense to me. I’m from France

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u/27Believe Jan 24 '23

How are things in France these days?

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u/buslyfe Jan 24 '23

They’re rioting right now cause they are trying to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. While here in the USA it’s nearly 70 before you get full social security lol.

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u/The_TesserekT Jan 25 '23

Also life expectancy is almost 3 years lower in the US (78.7 years) compared to France (81.5 years). So that makes US retirement is 11 years shorter?

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u/Nayr747 Jan 25 '23

It's also the only major country where life expectancy has been falling for years.

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u/I__Know__Stuff Jan 25 '23

Remember that "life expectancy" means life expectancy at birth. Life expectancy at age 70 is considerably higher.