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I come from a normal German city, nothing fancy, and have been overall roughly a year in the US. Boston, Princeton, Philadelphia, NY state. I am wealthy, privil

by oaiey 5y ago

I come from a normal German city, nothing fancy, and have been overall roughly a year in the US. Boston, Princeton, Philadelphia, NY state. I am wealthy, privileged and was guided safely I can absolutely confirm the sentiment of the OP, not coming from worst to best but coming from mid range to mid range. Europe has the better package. The amount of homeless, the amount of wasted landscape, the amount of beton, the car dependency, the disgusting public transport, the hotels, the water, ... I can rant for an hour. I love Americans, i deeply respect a lot what they did and do but life quality measured in every day quality ... Do not get me started on that.

boffinAudio 5y ago
Es ist sehr interessant, nicht wahr, wie banal das Verständnis der meisten Amerikaner für ihre Notlage ist? Sie werden nicht für Demut gezüchtet, während die meisten Europäer heutzutage...
- gutitout 5y ago
  Was sollen die den machen? Wirklich neugierig was der Vorschlag ist.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
    Wer? Die Europäer, oder die Amis? Ach. Ich editiere das mal: Beide sind so dumm, dass die Schweine sie beissen! Grunz
syki 5y ago
...but life quality measured in every day quality ... Do not get me started on that. It's so difficult to get Americans to grasp that this could be true. Most simply won't contemplate that it could be true. It does not occur to us that freedom to get healthcare without fear of going bankrupt is a freedom worth having. The simple act of walking from one town to another is alien to Americans. One thing that struck me when living in Germany was the lack of development around the lakes. In the U.S. lakes mostly are surrounded by houses with little thought to letting people walk there and enjoy the lake. I much prefer the European way of life. Europeans know how to live better than Americans. But we Americans can burn Korans, walk around with guns, and do Nazi salutes so we must be more free than Europeans....
nickpp 5y ago
You’ve travelled the US but maybe you should travel more at home in Europe, too. Don’t compare the entirety of the USA to just Western Europe. Go east, my friend, go east…

by oaiey 5y ago

boffinAudio 5y ago

Es ist sehr interessant, nicht wahr, wie banal das Verständnis der meisten Amerikaner für ihre Notlage ist? Sie werden nicht für Demut gezüchtet, während die meisten Europäer heutzutage...

gutitout 5y ago
Was sollen die den machen? Wirklich neugierig was der Vorschlag ist.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
  Wer? Die Europäer, oder die Amis? Ach. Ich editiere das mal: Beide sind so dumm, dass die Schweine sie beissen! Grunz

syki 5y ago

...but life quality measured in every day quality ... Do not get me started on that. It's so difficult to get Americans to grasp that this could be true. Most simply won't contemplate that it could be true. It does not occur to us that freedom to get healthcare without fear of going bankrupt is a freedom worth having. The simple act of walking from one town to another is alien to Americans. One thing that struck me when living in Germany was the lack of development around the lakes. In the U.S. lakes mostly are surrounded by houses with little thought to letting people walk there and enjoy the lake. I much prefer the European way of life. Europeans know how to live better than Americans. But we Americans can burn Korans, walk around with guns, and do Nazi salutes so we must be more free than Europeans....

nickpp 5y ago

You’ve travelled the US but maybe you should travel more at home in Europe, too. Don’t compare the entirety of the USA to just Western Europe. Go east, my friend, go east…