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Oh, please. Allow me to say what I bet the 320 people who chose to read the OP without responding to it probably wanted to say: The author of that article is a privileged jerk.
The fact that she had a lousy job doesn't mean the U.S. has a "lousy work culture." Jobs with benefits and which pay well are out there. Instead of whining about what "the U.S." (the government) needs to provide, she should start pounding the pavement, and chuck the idea that a full-time job is beneath her. Quite frankly, it sounds as if she'd relish being part of the almost 50% of Americans who don't even pay income tax.
The World Owes Me A Living is an.old song.
50% don't pay any income tax because their jobs don't pay them enough to pay any. The corporations would rather have the government pick up the tab for paying their workers so little. You don't see this in Europe. Companies there pay their workers a living wage for any type of work. They also invest in their workers rather than trying to dump them and bring in exploitable foreign labor.
America today is nothing more than in a race for the bottom.
I have been to Zurich, Switzerland. Everything is outrageously expensive there and the place has very little culture for the price tag. So, um, no thanks. (I suppose things would be different for a very rich person.)
I have been to Zurich, Switzerland. Everything is outrageously expensive there and the place has very little culture for the price tag. So, um, no thanks. (I suppose things would be different for a very rich person.)
I will stick with where I am.
Most big cities don't have much original culture anymore. You have to really go out of the way to experience real culture.
Not undermining America and the many great things here, but if I could just choose and like POOF i could move? I would choose Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Finland, Denmark to live over the US any day.....
The US is filled with jingoism and violence. The whole gun culture and evangelical christian element ... don't appeal to me at all. The food in the US is not so great (granted there are fantastic restaurants in every city) but overall...regular American food from the millions of chain restaurants everywhere is pretty much garbage IMO. Big box stores, endless suburbia....no thanks. Divisive politics? Willful and extreme ignorance is practically celebrated in America. Debt accumulation is a right of passage in America. . . I mean really?
Most big cities don't have much original culture anymore. You have to really go out of the way to experience real culture.
That's probably true in Zurich's case. But another thing is - you better be willing to learn German unless you want to feel like an outsider the whole time you're there.
Everything is in German in that part of Switzerland.
Not undermining America and the many great things here, but if I could just choose and like POOF i could move? I would choose Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Finland, Denmark to live over the US any day.....
The US is filled with jingoism and violence. The whole gun culture and evangelical christian element ... don't appeal to me at all. The food in the US is not so great (granted there are fantastic restaurants in every city) but overall...regular American food from the millions of chain restaurants everywhere is pretty much garbage IMO. Big box stores, endless suburbia....no thanks.
I can't recall the last time someone took a semi truck through crowds here in a religious anger of killing (Even the ones here wouldn't do that)
Switzerland was not invaded by Germany...Now why? I guess that EVERYONE knows how to use a gun....
Evangelical christian element...OK, so you don't believe...Lots of people don't, but they have to let others know this...for some reason.
I can't recall the last time someone took a semi truck through crowds here in a religious anger of killing (Even the ones here wouldn't do that)
Switzerland was not invaded by Germany...Now why? I guess that EVERYONE knows how to use a gun....
Evangelical christian element...OK, so you don't believe...Lots of people don't, but they have to let others know this...for some reason.
So no one has taken a semi truck through a crowd of people in America..... (yet)..
No, rather Americans prefer to blow eachother way in mass shootings that happen about once every three months. You know.... going into schools, churches, theatres, universities, night clubs and just indiscriminantly shoot and kill as many people as possible. Sandy Hook elementary school, Aurora, Colorado, Pulse night Club, various military bases in Texas, post offices, etc... Not to mention the shootings that happen every. single. day in America on local news throughout the country where people are killed by guns.....every day. You know gang voilence, stray bullets killing children, ridiculous turf wars...racial tensions, etc.
Sure, just gloss over that and focus on one truck attack in one country (france)..lol
I can't recall the last time someone took a semi truck through crowds here in a religious anger of killing (Even the ones here wouldn't do that)
Switzerland was not invaded by Germany...Now why? I guess that EVERYONE knows how to use a gun....
Evangelical christian element...OK, so you don't believe...Lots of people don't, but they have to let others know this...for some reason.
The gun violence there is practically nil, as well as most other kinds of violence. That is due to the overall higher education level and economic level of the average citizen compared to the US. Poor education and rampant poverty is a big contributor to the crime rates in the US. When you know there is a safety net to help you out, you're unlikely to pick up a gun and rob someone to survive.
That's probably true in Zurich's case. But another thing is - you better be willing to learn German unless you want to feel like an outsider the whole time you're there.
Everything is in German in that part of Switzerland.
Well, when in Rome...
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