tho the point about nature is valid
iirc part of the Florida thing is also that all arrest records are public
Okay let me get this straight. America is better because: we don't have to learn to cook, we can waste more and easier, our college athletes are exploited unlike those europeans in university, we over indulge in sweets to our detriment, we're gluttonous in general, ect
I had to stop. I can't keep making this list lol. How embarrassing
People from Europe are always amazed by how much sugar is in American breakfast
THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING
That was the first thing I went to as well. Have they ever talked to an American?
if you think i wouldn't risk my life for a respectable bowl of chili
Please, emigrate to Scandinavia and bring the Mexican food with you. My people are yearning for something better than flour tortillas with ground beef, lettuce and store-bought salsa.
"When I try to plug my stuff in Europe it doesn't work, but when I use it at home it works. I guess American voltage is just better." :blob-no-thoughts:
Why Living in America's Suburbs is Better Than Universal Healthcare Because Treats
UK has 240V outlets and electronics
UK people bring over 240V electronics to the US and they work, albeit at half-capacity.
Hair drier took forever to work (using american 120V while needing 240V to work correctly)
Fries 120V-rated electronics by using an outlet converter on a 240V outlet (HUGE RISK, too)
I'm not one to make fun of the people who don't care to learn technical bullshit because clearly, not everyone is into it and that's okay. But this one stood out to me because it just assumes that everything electrical works badly in Europe, when it's the opposite. Electric kettles are awful in the US, and other 120V countries, while in Europe they work extremely quick. So their whole thing is "i don't understand electronics thus USA #1", which... okay.
Europe they work extremely quick.
60 seconds to tea or coffee at any time. If I need my caffeine I need it NOW.
If you're a coffee nerd like me you need to wait at least 4 minutes for the damned thing to steep.
yes importand som 85 degrees CELSIUS is the right temperature
Lol trying to go at the Uk in particular about electricity is goofy to me. At least to my lamen eyes the Uk system seems way better thought out, even their plugs and stuff (other than the whole it laying face up on the ground and turning into a caltrop thing).
- "Outlets with 120 volts. My friends from the U.K. brought their own electronics over for a six-month stay, I asked to borrow a hair dryer after a night at their place. They had a U.K. to U.S. converter, but it would've been faster to air dry my hair. On the flip side, when I tried using my electronics in the U.K. with an adapter converter, my hairdryer and steamer immediately fried."
Doesn't the UK have the safest electrical system in the world?
Number 9 is whining that the Europe doesn't exploit their college students for profit enough.
Come to South Africa, we have 240 Volts baybee! Enough to instantly incinerate you hair!
UK has 240v, that's why their electronics don't work well in the US without an adapter and US electronics get fried in the UK. It's otherwise a really safe system though. Idk the details but (this is unless something goes wrong, it goes without saying that one should never actually try this) the outlets are designed so that you can touch an exposed prong or even stick a screwdriver in there without shocking yourself. They're also less prone to surges because the fuse is located at each plug, which was apparently the workaround to a copper shortage during WWII.
"You can drive anywhere on half the continent without a passport, knowing only one language."
Yeah it's because we genocided multiple peoples with different languages. If the Nazis had won the war Europe would be the same way.
In general you don't have to show passports inside the Schengen area. In those places you do (including my native Denmark where passport control has become a culture war thing for chuds) passport control consists of a bored cop hastily checking if you are holding something resembling a passport in your hand. It's not a big deal.
And for the language thing you'll get far with English. In those places where nobody speaks English you'll find a way to make yourself understandable using sign language and stuff. The different languages are part of what gives Europe it's charm.
I could go point by point and counter these, but this one stood out the most (besides the optimism one, already covered).
International food. Most mid-size U.S. towns in the middle of nowhere boast better Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Mexican, Indian, and Middle Eastern food than most European capitals.
This is just wrong. Like, 100% wrong. I have been to "mid-size US towns in the middle of nowhere" and many "European capitals." If you're going to tell me that the Indian food in Chicago is better than London or Turkish food in Milwaukee is better than in Berlin then I really don't know what to say to you. Vienna has better Japanese food than Orlando and it's not close folks.
Really all of these are either a) this person hasn't actually been to many places in either Europe or the United States (supermarkets in European cities have as many cereals and sweets as the US, you can get a wide variety of ice cream flavors at random ice cream places in many parts of Europe with just as many flavors as in the US or just food at 2am) or b) they wish Europe was more car reliant like the US, so they can get things like drive-thrus.
Some other ones that bugged me:
A more ecologically diverse country. Here in the U.S. we have virtually every climate and ecosystem on the gradient.
Just barely, but there are plenty of climates in Europe as well as the US. The only thing really missing in Europe that's present in the United States is desert. Every other biome is there.
You can drive anywhere on half the continent without a passport, knowing only one language.
Yeah you can do this in Europe too lol. You don't need a passport to cross EU borders, and if you only know English you're 100% able to go anywhere in the EU.
Around-the-clock access to food. The majority of the world doesn't have late-night fast food restaurants, let alone 24 hour grocery stores. In America if I need groceries at 3 a.m. in the U.S., they won't be too hard to find.
Also not true, there is plenty of street food in many European cities open very late and it happens to taste a lot better than Wendy's.
Thank you for this very annoying article.
The only thing really missing in Europe that’s present in the United States is desert. Every other biome is there.
Give it a couple years and Spain and Portugal will have deserts. Look at a Koppen-Geiger climate map and you'll see the only edge that America has here is the South Florida tropical climate, but give that a couple years too and it'll be underwater.
I was talking to a Pod Jons guy I know about how after early 2020, my Plan B to emigrate out of the US became my Plan A.
I mentioned a region I liked and he jumped on it and mentioned his experience visiting the capital of an adjacent country for 2 days as a tourist and said, "You can't get any good burritos there." Like being able to get a burrito at a food truck is more important than universal healthcare or any of the several dozen other things that make life in the US alienating and precarious.
I make most of the food I eat, because it's cheaper and I have lived in places where the restaurant/take out options are limited. I like certain curries, so I learned to make those curries. I like schezuan, so I learned to use the peppercorns. I like ginger beef over jasmine rice, so I learned to make it. I like calzones, so I learned to make dough and make calzones. My tastes change over time, but basically everywhere I go I bring it all with me.
none of this is even remotely a big deal, except to Americans with America Brain who are apparently stuck only eating the treats that they can find around them.
Yeah, the top deal with the Mexican food would be something I'd miss, but I can just like, make that shit at home real easy.
Reading #1 and #2 (mexican food and bbq) I was thinking I sort of agreed and then it immediately went to high sugar breakfast and drive-through everything :amerikkka:
back in my day, american redditors mocked america's addiction to shitty corn syrup treats
optimism
WHAT
Mexican food is definitely a real one. I don't know if that's something I could live without.
It’s true, but also works the other way. I could totally see a Euro buzzfeed complaining that there’s no good French food in Paris, Texas.
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about rn but I'm feeling hostile about it
Yeah like obvi the US will have better Mexican food, that's a given. Same with better bbq, it's like complaining that Italy has better Italian food than the United States.
If you can get the correct ingredients like the dried chilies and the corn tortillas you can get pretty damn close I think. But you'd have to make it yourself, can't really get it from a cart or a restaurant.
European Nature is Hands down Better
- No Scary Shit like Torandos Blizzards .
- No Scary Animals ,like Black Squirrels
- Red Squirrels
- You can find Ruins and History in the Nature and on Mountaintops
- Castles as it own Point
- no freakishly out of skale stuff like the Mississippi or a Redwood tree
I know buzzfeed has never been quality but Jesus Christ they just reposted a fucking Reddit thread, this is probably mostly just dumb fucking Americans.
Listicles and clickbait shit has been like this for a while. I don't think there's even writers anymore, just bots that scrape askreddit threads for content.
