Sure not everyone makes $200k but if you're a working professional like a lawyer at a prestigious firm, in house counsel at big company, doctor, you definitely will.
And someone with a lower tier job making 100k could potentially have greater purchasing power than someone in Argentina. A house with yard is 100k, mortgage easy to come by, a you can lease a new Kia for $200.
Argentina comes out ahead on health care and education, and potentially food depending upon on what you eat.
you are living in a dream world.
a "lower tier" job makes $15k in the USA. The median HOUSEHOLD (not personal salary) in the USA is currently around 40 grand. 50% of the people make LESS than this. So a lower tier job makes 40 grand or less. At that salary level, a mortgage is far from "easy to come by"- usually they want 20% down.
Where, exactly, are these $100k houses? The median home price in my state is $387.000 - thats for the entire state.
the median house price for the USA currently is $286,000.
Sure, there are some places where you can still buy a house for 100 grand- places where people are leaving, because wages are like seven bucks an hour.
Most lawers in the USA, as in 90% or so of the lawyers, make 100k or less. Most doctors in rural areas make less. In big cities, specialists make more- and their houses cost a million or more. And they are very few in number.
I have bought and sold houses and commercial buildings for 40 years now- not professionally, but a few times- 100k houses are 80s prices everywhere I have lived.
200k salaries are very rare. only 30% of households in the USA make 100k- and thats usually 2 incomes.
Argentina, obviously, is worse.
When you speculate on 200k salaries in Argentina, you are talking about a tiny tiny percentage of the population.
Most argentines, and most US citizens, are barely making do on less than a 1/4 of that.
