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I'm sure many Europeans will be jealous of your working hours, numbers of holidays, employee rights, retirement plans, high quality and affordable health-care, high quality education system, infrastructure, broadband speeds, cell phone reception ...
The one things Europeans may actually be jealous of are the McMansions. Only those of us who actually lived there know that those are poorly isolated, poorly build Americans build quality and that's why they are cheaper than houses of the same size in Europe.
I 100% agree with this post. I just don't get it why Americans think that Europe has it worse
My answer to the original question: Wars and foreign policy.
Is this place you call "Europe" a country or something? I have never heard of "Europe" having a border control!
I had to bend over backwards and extrapolate quite far in my mind to come to this conclusion, but I think that she meant that she traveled into a country within the continent of Europe and had to deal with border control there...
No doubt. Every answer possible for the OP has already been given at least 40 or 50 pages ago. It's basically just an open bash thread at this point. Nice.
I had to bend over backwards and extrapolate quite far in my mind to come to this conclusion, but I think that she meant that she traveled into a country within the continent of Europe and had to deal with border control there...
Thank you for your answer. I may have failed because my post was ment to be sarcastic
I'm not reading through all 73 pages of this thread but I'll just say this:
Not everybody hates America (especially in Europe). That's just as narcissistic as assuming everyone loves America. The fact is that people don't go about their entire lives thinking about America. Most people are probably mostly indifferent, with a combination of positive and negative opinions towards various aspects of America. Similarly, most sensible/not crazy Americans (there are exceptions to both sides as I know) are the same way.
I'm sure somewhere in this thread someone already said that but w/e. Americans just need to get over the collective national narcissism + occasional martyr complex.
I'm not reading through all 73 pages of this thread but I'll just say this:
Not everybody hates America (especially in Europe). That's just as narcissistic as assuming everyone loves America. The fact is that people don't go about their entire lives thinking about America. Most people are probably mostly indifferent, with a combination of positive and negative opinions towards various aspects of America. Similarly, most sensible/not crazy Americans (there are exceptions to both sides as I know) are the same way.
I'm sure somewhere in this thread someone already said that but w/e. Americans just need to get over the collective national narcissism + occasional martyr complex.
The one things Europeans may actually be jealous of are the McMansions. Only those of us who actually lived there know that those are poorly isolated, poorly build Americans build quality and that's why they are cheaper than houses of the same size in Europe.
The US has a huge range of housing options, from igloos to dome homes to Victorian mansions to 1930s cottages to 1950s bungalows to ranch style homes, log cabins, high rise condos, row houses, and yes...among other things, McMansions. But get this - most Americans don't live in "McMansions."
Our housing in many areas (not all areas) tends to be less expensive than most European housing, not because of construction costs (remember, many of our houses are 50 or more years old, with a considerable number being over 100 years old) - but because the land is plentiful and affordable. When you can buy a lot for less, the house costs less. Generally speaking, we're less crowded than most of Europe (outside big metro areas, where housing is NOT cheap) and so we live on bigger, less expensive tracts of land.
Not that I expect you to believe any of this, with your extremely biased and negative opinion of the US.
I had to bend over backwards and extrapolate quite far in my mind to come to this conclusion, but I think that she meant that she traveled into a country within the continent of Europe and had to deal with border control there...
By golly, you've got it!
When you fly from the US into Europe - any country within Europe (which is why I used the term "Europe" rather than "Belgium" or "Germany" or "the UK" or whatever), you have to pass through border control/customs. I know you get it - but I am surprised that I have to explain that to anyone.
Thank you for your answer. I may have failed because my post was ment to be sarcastic
And like the other poster, I am clearly missing the "cleverness" of it.
No, I don't know that Europe isn't a country. I thought it was. I thought that Germany and Slovakia and Poland and Austria and all those other places were just states. Because I'm Murican and I thought the country of Europe wanted to be just like us so they made all those other former countries states.
(Now THAT is sarcasm.)
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