Nobody goes to America and thinks:
"Wow, it's so rich here!"
I knew a dude from business school who was a big America fan and his dream was to work for Goldman Sachs in NYC.
After he actually arrived in NYC,
he was very disappointed because it's way more ghetto than he imagined.
America HAS a lot of wealth, but it's in datacenters, fighter jets and shit.
It's not like you gonna land and Elon comes out with a gold plated Megazord to greet you.
Actual gold digger favourites are Saint Tropez, Monaco, Dubai, certain districts in Paris, Shanghai, HK.
All of these “Europeans experiencing America for the first time” stories have a common theme: Every single one of them is a European experiencing for the first time how absurdly wealthy the United States is compared to really anywhere else in the world. It underpins them all