US is #2, only behind Luxembourg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

With higher cost of living, taxes and less job opportunity and an economy that isn't recovering. The US with all its flaws really depends on where and how you look at it from, especially with the rise of work at home allowing more fluid movement to much lower cost areas compared to the cheapest areas of EU zone.

> Actually, the median income per person is higher in most of the EU

That's factually wrong, cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

But I also learned today that my simple assumption was now wrong.

So congratulations to Luxembourg, for being part of the EU yet not as poor as the rest!