Reply To: Life in Israel is hard for most isreilis

The average wage in EY (roughly $3500/month) is not materially different from those in the U.S. ($3700/month) but subsidies for housing and food vary substantially. In the U.S., frum families have more inertia and are reluctant to move far away from family and frum mosdos and infratstructure to so called OOT locations. Both the U.S. and EY suffer from severe shortages of affordable housing, especially for larger families. Multiple factors make direct comparisons difficult. The data itself is questionable given the U.S. and EY use different metrics to measure those in the work force (the demoninator in the computation of average wages and how data for those working part-time and/or those who have dropped out of the work force are normalized).