Moving to Europe, South America, Asia

[stan4]

Originally Posted by Rafius

The only people I see staggering around the streets in a drunken stupor are tourists....usually British. In pretty much all of Europe you can get a drink any time of the day so people moderate their drinking...there is no rush to 'fill up' before closing time.

In the US, there are no set federal hours for drinking - they vary from state to state...but in Texas you can start serving alcohol at 7am and go all the way 2am...

[Tiger Beer]

Originally Posted by stan4

France is a latin country?

Btw, I've been all over europe and all kinds of people have all kinds of drinking habits.

I think the big difference is that you can't drink and drive in those countries. So people are a lot more careful in public. But they still do get wasted.

Yeah, but you can walk everywhere in those countries - in Europe.

I lived in Europe for a year...I didn't need a car at all.

Half of that time, I was living in Spain...people would drink all night...socializing, you could easily walk home. But no one got drunk. They'd quickly say that Brits who were buying 2nd homes in Spain, they'd all say that's what they did.

A lot of his to do with those limited hour restriction times. I think the UK use to be around 11pm, so everyone got really drunk before they were kicked out of the bars.

Down in Spain, they don't have any restrictions on that.

I'm in Asia myself. No restrictions here either. You can drink in a bar at 6am if you want, and many people do