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  • A lot of people do it for dental care and plastic surgeries already. It’s exactly the same with everything else. People here don’t seem to realize you have private healthcare in Europe where you can just pay for the visit. The problem is that you also have to pay for the stay. I will give you two examples. Wisdom tooth extraction costs around 300 euros in Spain vs $500 in US. Doesn’t make sense to fly to Spain to do it. Tooth implant costs around 1000 euros in Spain vs $3500 in US. Now paying for a single flight would make sense but tooth implant requires multiple visits spanning around 3 months. If you have to fly twice or stay in Spain for 3 months it doesn’t make sense.

    But if you’re already going to Europe and want to fix your tooth while you’re here you can totally do it. A lot of people that live in US but have family in Europe do it.




  • Is it really that simple? I once was stack in customer service hell with my internet provider where they weren’t able to connect me but didn’t want to cancel my service. I canceled the contract, they charged me some cancellation fees, I refused to pay, they sold my debt to a collector who was not able to collect anything but threatened that they will put me in some registry. Couple years later I was taking a mortgage and I asked in the bank if being in some registry could be an issue and they said that no, they don’t care about unpaid $200 debt. With a generic credit score that’s different. The bank will see a low score and might not care how did you get it. That gives leverage to debt collectors and shitty companies.