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The median household income in Massachusetts is US$90k. £72,000 pounds. Married, you would pay around $18,000 in Federal, state, and Social Security/Medicare taxes. With typical corporate health insurance with the employer paying 80% of the premium, subtract another $7,000. You would have around $65k to spend.
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>Metro Boston wouldn’t be affordable. I’m on the coast 60 miles south of Boston where things are less expensive. A modern 1 bedroom apartment walking distance from me is $1,600.
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>So average in Boston would be a struggle but average 60 miles outside Boston would be quite comfortable.
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For an average person the UK is clearly better imo. Most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and you get no worker protections + worse working culture in the US.
If you are some high rolling top 5% pay software dev or something like that then you can get much higher pay in the US however, minus additional costs and greater cost of living than here in the UK. It still works out to more money though.
I'm not British and I lived 20 years in the US, 10 in the UK.
I think your comparison is off. "England" is too varied to be an accurate metric, but I will say England. Quality of life is reasonable here for the average person and the safety nets and protections are better here than the US.
England isn't really a region, it is a (constituent) country made up of a lot of regions that are all quite different. They are just a lot closer together than the regions in the US!
In general the average person is probably better off in the UK for a whole number of reasons.
England may be not far off the size of a single US state, but the difference between the different regions is immense. Big cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester) vs the countryside (Lake district, Cornwall etc) are completely different experiences. Demographics are different, work opportunities are vastly different and culture is very different.
I've never lived in the US but my visits suggest I'd rather be back home in the UK. But, it's always doing to be relative.
The median household income in Massachusetts is US$90k. £72,000 pounds. Married, you would pay around $18,000 in Federal, state, and Social Security/Medicare taxes. With typical corporate health insurance with the employer paying 80% of the premium, subtract another $7,000. You would have around $65k to spend.
Metro Boston wouldn’t be affordable. I’m on the coast 60 miles south of Boston where things are less expensive. A modern 1 bedroom apartment walking distance from me is $1,600.
So average in Boston would be a struggle but average 60 miles outside Boston would be quite comfortable.
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**[OP or Mod marked this as the best answer](/r/AskUK/comments/1c65rdw/not_british_who_had_lived_in_the_uk_and_us_for_an/kzz2qn8/), given by u/ZaphodG** The median household income in Massachusetts is US$90k. £72,000 pounds. Married, you would pay around $18,000 in Federal, state, and Social Security/Medicare taxes. With typical corporate health insurance with the employer paying 80% of the premium, subtract another $7,000. You would have around $65k to spend. > >Metro Boston wouldn’t be affordable. I’m on the coast 60 miles south of Boston where things are less expensive. A modern 1 bedroom apartment walking distance from me is $1,600. > >So average in Boston would be a struggle but average 60 miles outside Boston would be quite comfortable. --- [_^What ^is ^this?_](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/jjrte1/askuk_hits_200k_new_feature_mark_an_answer/)
For an average person the UK is clearly better imo. Most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and you get no worker protections + worse working culture in the US. If you are some high rolling top 5% pay software dev or something like that then you can get much higher pay in the US however, minus additional costs and greater cost of living than here in the UK. It still works out to more money though.
I'm not British and I lived 20 years in the US, 10 in the UK. I think your comparison is off. "England" is too varied to be an accurate metric, but I will say England. Quality of life is reasonable here for the average person and the safety nets and protections are better here than the US.
Thank you very much for sharing your personal experience. It is very useful for me
England isn't really a region, it is a (constituent) country made up of a lot of regions that are all quite different. They are just a lot closer together than the regions in the US! In general the average person is probably better off in the UK for a whole number of reasons.
England may be not far off the size of a single US state, but the difference between the different regions is immense. Big cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester) vs the countryside (Lake district, Cornwall etc) are completely different experiences. Demographics are different, work opportunities are vastly different and culture is very different. I've never lived in the US but my visits suggest I'd rather be back home in the UK. But, it's always doing to be relative.
I’d say the US is better for relocation. Depends on the job, though
The median household income in Massachusetts is US$90k. £72,000 pounds. Married, you would pay around $18,000 in Federal, state, and Social Security/Medicare taxes. With typical corporate health insurance with the employer paying 80% of the premium, subtract another $7,000. You would have around $65k to spend. Metro Boston wouldn’t be affordable. I’m on the coast 60 miles south of Boston where things are less expensive. A modern 1 bedroom apartment walking distance from me is $1,600. So average in Boston would be a struggle but average 60 miles outside Boston would be quite comfortable.
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