Plenty of other examples of well paid workers and US SWEs paid more than EU SWEs. UPS teamsters are unionized. AT&T technicians are unionized. Both pay their SWEs more than EU companies by a substantial margin.
> did awesome job with generous money in creating enduring businesses with strong work ethics.
You could name companies which are actually changing how (European) companies operate. Zoom, Slack, SpaceX, Figma, the list goes on and on. None of which were started in Europe.
32 hours a week and 60k EUR/year doesn't cut it in a competitive market, and any founder will tell you that.
> And Housing in US is lot cheaper for majority of people.
Not in any major city. Clearly you don't live in the US.