As Michael Scheuer has stated many years ago - "stick a fork into it".
Racially, the US has been shit for longer than (central) Europe but has more landmass and still provides opportunity for the able-bodied(educated slave classes) to serve "the rich".
Most of "rich" Europe seems keen upon hand-outs and comfy arrangements to prevent people from attaining skills and adding value via self determination. Furthermore once you've experienced the institutionalized recruiting & comforting of foreign entities unable to provide any benefit you know that it's over.
It seems like in all of the West there's still a window of opportunity to "make it"(but for how much longer) or to belong to a streamlined / isomorphic bottom feeder society ruled by old and new money.