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Bear in mind that the term "Europe" is pretty much meaningless – for that matter, so is "United States".

A developer in London makes a different salary (and has a different environment entirely) than one in say Iași.

The implication is obvious that they are comparing to the richest EU cities. It's already a huge difference. To compare it to some city in Romania. That would be insane. What is that like, about 10x the salary?

Yes, I compare it with richest cities/countries. In poor European countries it's not uncommon to only get 1000 Euro NET salary per month.

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