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I had a German woman in the late 80’s that was visiting her American cousins express a little shock when we discussed showering and someone mentioned how they couldn’t go a day without one. She said “You take showers everyday?”

Now that’s not to say everyone there lives like that, but in THIS case, these people who had enough money to fly to America to visit, lived in an apartment building where they had wash up sinks and then they shared a shower with the building. She also found it a luxery to be able to take a soaking bath on a regular occassion.

Now a friend of mine whose husband was stationed in Germany told me that it wasn’t true, that she lived in Germany and she had a shower in her apartment. In another conversation a few months later she mentioned living on the base and I asked if he ever lived anywhere else while he was stationed there. The answer was no, I guess forgetting the conversation about how Republicans no nothing about Europe. She lived on a BASE!

I have not been there. I do not know for a fact, only what this German family said and maybe they lived in a poorer section of town. I just know they thought we had waaayyyy too much space for one little family. I mean her middle class cousins had a front yard AND a back yard and TWO STORIES ON THEIR HOUSE!

There is no doubt that the Europeans have lower living standards than us. First of all for comparative jobs they make less salaries, they pay more in taxes, and everything they buy is much more expensive than in the US including their own products that are cheaper to buy here in the US than their own countries. In other word our purchasing power is vastly superior to them. They live in smaller homes, in most cases much smaller homes, they drive much smaller cars, they eat out much less, etc...

To summarize thanks the Lord that we live in America the greatest and most prosperous nation in history of mankind.