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Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California?
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<blockquote data-quote="trophy33" data-source="post: 77661616" data-attributes="member: 414763"><p>Generally said, the EU countries chose the way "everybody should have a chance to be in the middle class" - few people are really poor (mostly alcoholics, gamblers, drug addicts and similar cases) and few are really rich (mostly very successful entrepreneurs). Most people are "average".</p><p></p><p>It costs high taxes/insurance, but gives high social security and kind of equality - somebody lives in an rented flat, somebody in an owned house, somebody has a common car, somebody have a more expensive car, somebody has no car, but all have kind of similar life style, education, healthcare and most places look socially similar. You can hardly recognize who is poorer or richer just by looking at them.</p><p></p><p>Also the education is more or less the same for everybody - sure, there are few elite schools, but the rest is all "average" with normative state graduation exams and nobody cares about what is the name or place of the school you studied. Similarly with healthcare - except of few highly specialized healthcare places, there is basically no difference between different places.</p><p></p><p>The US chose another way, at least in the past and there are sharp social differences even when crossing from one street to another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trophy33, post: 77661616, member: 414763"] Generally said, the EU countries chose the way "everybody should have a chance to be in the middle class" - few people are really poor (mostly alcoholics, gamblers, drug addicts and similar cases) and few are really rich (mostly very successful entrepreneurs). Most people are "average". It costs high taxes/insurance, but gives high social security and kind of equality - somebody lives in an rented flat, somebody in an owned house, somebody has a common car, somebody have a more expensive car, somebody has no car, but all have kind of similar life style, education, healthcare and most places look socially similar. You can hardly recognize who is poorer or richer just by looking at them. Also the education is more or less the same for everybody - sure, there are few elite schools, but the rest is all "average" with normative state graduation exams and nobody cares about what is the name or place of the school you studied. Similarly with healthcare - except of few highly specialized healthcare places, there is basically no difference between different places. The US chose another way, at least in the past and there are sharp social differences even when crossing from one street to another. [/QUOTE]
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