I was trying to bet with my friend what a very big salary in Western Europe in in a tier 2 city (meaning a big city, with great quality of life, BUT not a capital like London, Paris, Berlin and so on. So for example: Liverpool, Manchester, Bordeaux, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Lyon and son).
If you earn something around 150 000 dollars in these cities, you're really, really well off, probably amongst the biggest earners. In fact, very few people make that much in Western Europe. I was trying to ask him what that would be like in the USA, since you guys have so much more to pay (medical debt, student debt, housing crisis / rent, yada yada yada), and he's thinking something around 250-300k…but it seems to me like he's exaggerating.
I'm not sure how correct that is though?
NB: he was thinking on average compared to similar cities in America