What are your thoughts on the refugees crisis in Europe?

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Sharu said:

Psychotic said:

Um... money? Average slary? GDP? Standard of living? Take your pick.

Well... Using PPP GDP I see that Russia is in top 5 for 2014... And Sweden is faaar behind and Denmark is even lower. 
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.CD?order=wbapi_data_value_2014+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=desc

And even on GDP without PPP methods, Russia is 10th, Sweden - 20th and Denmark is between Thailand and Malaysia. 
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD/countries?order=wbapi_data_value_2014+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=desc

If you think GDP is best method to get the best country then you should move to China, man.

And if you speak about avg salary you shouldn't forget that the prices level and costs structure is very different over the world. 
For example today in SPb benzin price is around 36 rub for 1 liter. And its rouhly 0.47 Euro/0.59 USD. 
So you can't just compare numbers, you should consider other things too... 

ehm you need to take per capita, not just gpd if you want to compare a big country with a small one...

and the russian numbers will take a huge hit 2015, they are very dependen on the oil price, and well thats gonna hurt this year.

oh and you should drive a european car in russia, or the higher gasoline use of your lada will out all the savings from cheaper gasoline.

money isnt the most important think anyway. denmark is a realy safe country with a solid social net and first class healthcare and education for everyone, thats in my opinion much more improtant than 2-5k more or less salary