Waterfalls
You say the money at Ryanair looks better than at UA.
Remeber the cost of living is way higher in Europe than the US, at current exchange rates everything over here costs about twice as much over here than in the States. eg Gas $10 a gallon, Levi jeans £60 or $120, the list is endless. A half decent 3 bedroom house will be in the region of £250-300,000 or $5-600,000, which would be not the standard of a house in the US costing $250,000.
Yes, on paper the money will be better but it is a false economy as the money won't go as far as it does in US.