Comment by KirinDave

In the UK, you have a very high baseline level of education for your kids and excellent health care.

My family has 2 cancer survivors in it. We can't get health care without some collective bargaining.

Unlike a lot of folks here, I've actually done a startup from scratch. I used COBRA to cover the spread until we could set up a company plan. It was a major expense, and I was lucky we had access to a lot more capital than is typical for a company with 0 folks.

I had a ton of fortunate scenarios that lined up to make it so for a brief 2 year period I could imagine trying an early stage startup. Most people won't have those.