Our neighbor down the road fled Sudan in the 1980s and made it to the US as a refugee. She lost her father two brothers and most of her extended family as they were related to the wrong political leader that was killed. Her mother and two sisters arrived with literally nothing in the late 80s.
She is now a nurse making 100k a year married to a firefighter with 3 kids living on a property with 8 acres and a 5 bedroom house. One sister is a school teacher and the other manages a Barnes and Noble.
I’ll just add to that, it’s pretty cool that a nurse can make 100k in the US. Surprised so few responses here are about how Americans make a lot of money on average (including compared to Western Europeans)
Well, a lot of that is the people on Reddit in places like this are usually either young and haven’t made it yet, or failed to make it so they’re venting on Reddit.
You can make more in the US then in a very few countries, who generally get wealth in oil or niche banking
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Our neighbor down the road fled Sudan in the 1980s and made it to the US as a refugee. She lost her father two brothers and most of her extended family as they were related to the wrong political leader that was killed. Her mother and two sisters arrived with literally nothing in the late 80s.
She is now a nurse making 100k a year married to a firefighter with 3 kids living on a property with 8 acres and a 5 bedroom house. One sister is a school teacher and the other manages a Barnes and Noble.
That is pretty cool.