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Originally Posted by Nikolas
And we pay through our teeth for essential services (sometimes with our lives due to slow ambulance responses) as a result.
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I can only compare to where I live in Italy, another fairly wealthy country. If you get sick you either make an appointment to see a Doctor in a couple of weeks, or go to the local hospital emergency area like we have over here, and wait two, three, four .... eight or nine hours till someone sees you.
Essential services like electricity aren't so expensive, because you only get 3.6KW of power into your house (unless you pay big amounts to get 4.5KWor 6KW into your house). So it's pretty hard to spend a lot on electricity, ulike here where you typically get 20KW into one's house (I have 40KW coming in).
I know where I'd rather be living if I got sick, or wanted to keep warm with two 2KW fan heaters.
Regards,
Renato