Do American auto workers have an inferiority complex? VW workers get paid $67 an hour in Germany

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1. Its difficult to compare the two countries

due to totally different costs of living.

More on the subject in general here : http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2012/05/06/revisiting-how-germany-builds-twice-as-many-cars-as-the-u-s-while-paying-its-workers-twice-as-much/

Outside of the subject of cars and on the subject of different costs living - if rates were equal between say the US and the UK then why would the families USAF forces based in the UK use the PX instead of local shops ?