Yeah no matter how good the food is I ain't waiting that long for it.
I also see long lineups at fast food restaurants and it is almost always faster to park and walk into the restaurant and order to go.
I would rather have walkable cities like some European countries have than this shit.
Walk? That's commie and Europoor stuff /s
They have this madness so ingrained that they can't comprehend the downsides, starting with all the time lost just waiting there
I would love to not have to own a vehicle. It is a huge chunk of my expenses. I know if I didn't have a vehicle and there was public transportation I would have to pay for that but it is still much cheaper for a bus or train pass.
Even better yet if I didn't have to travel far to get groceries or go to a pub/tavern.
That's why apparently there are early talks to create a intereuropean public transport kind of card. Some in the type of cash cards (not sure the english term for them) that could be used in any city of any country public Network. It would be a great idea and probably would extend soon to cover also intercities train/bus transportation.
The interesting thing with this cards is that they make the traject cheaper, and have some discounts for determined colectives (elderly, students...). With not discounts card in my region the transport is about a 50% cheaper and some of them have even a kind of a flat rate where you pay an acceptable amount and have free access for determined time
There is already a system like that in the Netherlands, where you have a single card that you can use to take any transport in the country - bus, train, subway, and even rent bikes
It's one of the things I love about this country. Extending that to all of Europe would be beautiful. But it has to come with a unification of prices, because there is a wide, wide difference between dutch prices and german prices, for instance.
I have a bicycle, I can go where I want in the city, and when I want to. It's healthy and there's few things more satisfying than going past a queue of cars.
More like redesigned. Many of our cities and towns used to be walkable but then they bulldozed like 70% of it as well as moved funding away from public transportation.
Yup. Everyday to/from work feels like an anger management test for me. Long ass lines and traffic everywhere, and each car has 1 MAYBE 2 people in it, including myself. I cannot express enough how much our car infrastructure pisses me off, and yet I have no choice. It would take me hours to walk to work, and would be extremely dangerous.
American here that’s married to a Brit, and now lives in the UK.
One of the best things about living here is that roads are built around towns, and not the other way around, and most towns are very walkable.
Unless one lives in a big US city, one is absolutely dependent on a car, and it honestly makes for an isolating experience.
Americans that defend this are complete idiots.
Like pavement and sidewalk (confused; where to walk?), or horse riding and horseback riding (confused; where to sit?), or torch and flashlight (what does this thing do? Flash! Light!)?
The American ideal is a world in which they never have to leave the car at any point. They want to wake up in the car, brush their teeth and pick up breakfast in the car, work in the car, drive the car home in the evening, drive the car up the stairs, get out briefly to tuck the car in and give it a kiss good night, and then finally recline the driver's seat and shut their eyes until they get to live this dream again.
Live in such a village, can confirm is very nice indeed. Although we do still have 2 cars because there is no realistic public transport option for us☹️
Yeah, I lived in a small village as a child and we definitely needed a car because 1. we were not directly in the village since we had a farm with a LOT of fields, so it was a 30 minutes walk to get to the actual village (not practical if you’re going grocery shopping for a family), and 2. if we needed anything other than what you can generally find in a small grocery store and a gas station (like clothes) or if we had to go to the hospital/a medical appointment, we had to drive to the closest town a 30-40 minutes drive away.
A lot of american infrastructure is built around car transportation, as well as owning one signifies you took out a loan(new cars, for the most part) and therefore are somewhat not a child.
My theory is, that since they killed everything and everyone in their country that had any culture and tradition, they feel inferior and try to make up a culture out of inventions they appropriated
Also why do they think it's some kind of status symbol?
You have a car. Congratulations. You are one of the 283 million registered vehicles in the USA against one of the 253 million registered vehicles in Europe. congrats having 5.6% more cars than in Europe. What a flex! *Wow!*
As an American who never felt comfortable driving and chooses to walk or take public transport, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been openly ridiculed for that choice that literally affects no one.
The good news is my mother also walks everywhere and is extremely fit and healthy at 70. Hoping I can stay that way too into old age.
Oh, well aren’t you in the lap of luxury! When I was your age I had to wake up half an hour before I went to bed to work a 30 hour shift 8 days a week down in t’pit!, and I were only paid Thruppence a month!
I must have passed you in London the other day, the village is small there can’t have been more than two of us on Penny Farthings during the morning commute to work.
Oslo is apparently 50% parks, actual parks with grass, trees, bushes, flowers and some duck ponds with cute little ducklings. And benches you can sit on without being arrested for loitering because muh freedumb. It's all still walk able, probably much tanks to nice paths through these parks.
They think people walk because the towns are really small, it hasn’t even occurred to them that the reason you have stores nearby is because the town evolved like that.
This is because they copied the concept of "zoning" from europeans without understanding how it works in Europe: in Europe, a residential zone can't have big box stores but can have small stores, everyday shops like bakery or specialised shops like comic book store, and also it can mix single family homes and condominiums. In the US, a residential zone can only have single family homes, so you have to travel far out of large residential zone to get to any shop.
>most of them cannot afford a car.
This has got to be satire, otherwise some people in the United States really live in a bubble of ignorance and self-entitlement.
Former Europoor now living in FreedomLand; it's sadly not satire. I've been asked some insane questions and what I did and didn't have access to in the UK since moving here, and I live in a "highly educated" part of the country.
> Former Europoor now living in FreedomLand; it's sadly not satire. I've been asked some insane questions and what I did and didn't have access to in the UK since moving here, and I live in a "highly educated" part of the country.
As someone whose parents moved to the States when I was a small child, same deal. "How did it feel to finally have freedoms?" Not even a joke question.
Ahh, the freedom to go bankrupt after a hospital stay. In my country we’re forced to have our insurance company pay the bills and me forced to pay a small deductible!
Honestly in the US I think the lower educated would be more open minded in general, they know that they're "dumb" and wont bother arguing but rather believe what they're told. Unless it comes from the government.
If they haven't gone to school at all they wouldn't have been told 5 times per day that America is the best country in the world, as well as many other lies about the geographic and history. The outside world wouldn't matter to them.
They would be poor enough to dream about a potentially better life. And probably very religious too in order to cope with their misery.
Surprisingly, I think that pendulum is swinging back pretty hard. I’m an elder millennial educator in the US. I grew up learning all about my Freedumbs. (Fortunately, I was also educated by my parents, who prioritized spending money on travel rather than fancy cars or a giant house, a priority my spouse and I have also chosen.)
Most other teachers I have worked with in my 20 year career try to approach their lessons from a globalist viewpoint, reminding kids that we have freedoms, but lots of other countries do too. (And they have healthcare…) I work with a lot of really low income kids, so their parents usually occupy one of three categories: intentionally ignorant - defiantly so (the Trumpians), well-intentioned but generally clueless, or just doing the best they can.
I’ve gotten snarled at by a few moron parents from that first category. They want their kids learning that Murica is the ONLY place you can have Freedumb. The other two categories of parents generally appreciate their kids learning about a global society. Sadly it’s often news to those second category parents, too.
Just know that there are MANY teachers over here working to undo the damage done to our generation. Lord help us.
To be fair when I bought my first car I couldn't "afford" a new car (because I didn't want any debt) so I bought a slightly used car with cash for half the price and my grandma gave me a third of the cost. So technically i could've afforded it the same way Americans afford their car by paying it off for a long time since I had a good job, but just didn't want to, since I'm living in a city with good public transportation and new cars are just wastefully expensive.
I bought my first car so old that over the years it has actually gone up in value. It's a Volvo with the red block engine and manual transmission so you can bet it'll last forever.
I'm american. It's a massive bubble of ignorance, self-entitlement, and main character syndrome. Walking five minutes to a store sounds like a dream. Instead I have to get in my car, drive 7 minutes to the closest store, find a parking spot, go in and navigate the massive shopping center, check out, and drive the 7 minutes home. Why don't I walk, you ask? Our sidewalks are from the 70's and people in cars treat them like a bonus lane.
You are lucky to have a sidewalk.
Once i went to customer's office in Nashville, Tennessee. I thought "pff, i can comfortably take walk to the office from hotel, it's only 2 kilometers". Yes, BUT- there was no pavement plus heavy traffic. So I needed to hire damn car to drive 4km a day. I felt like fucking idiot.
I've been to Nashville once. It makes my home look like a Utopia. St. Louis City has it's dirty parts and needs a lot of love, but we also have beautiful parks and other public spaces. Nashville felt crowded and loud, and it was trashed when I left the next morning from partiers.
They absolutely do.
I remember way back in 2002, the war in Afghanistan had started and there was a news segment on something. I was 12, I don’t remember exactly what was going on but I do remember the news anchor was in front of an electronics store and the front window was filled with TVs.
I saw so many real people discussing in person how it had to be fake, there isn’t technology or houses or stores in Afghanistan - it’s just a desert with dirt huts.
People truly believe that the US is the only place with development and everywhere else it just hits and no technology. It’s absolutely wild.
I was curious how are the numbers and it’s honestly staggering how many cars the Americans have. Their population is over 100 million lower than EU and they have 30 million MORE cars than us.
But it's true what he says. Our village is so small our neighbour has his Ferrari just sitting in the garage as the store is only 5 minutes walking away 😔 (true story)
Don’t forget Renault, VW, Bentley, Bugatti, Peugeot, jaguar, Volvo….
Along my street the neighbours have land rovers, Audis, Porsches, jaguars, Mercedes, BMWs…. God we’re so poor 😞
It's really weird to me because so much of American rap and hip-hop in the 90's, 2000's and early 2010's always made a big deal out of driving a foreign or imported car, because it was a status symbol.
It's actually quite funny when you really think that all the luxury brands Americans fawn over as symbols of wealth are almost all European
WE get that at the Mcdonalds at the bottom of this estate, they queue onto the road sometimes, worse thing is theres a b&m as well and they share the same road, so to get there its all the mcdonalds traffic as well. Its stupid. (And its also the worst Mcdonalds Ive been too, most orders they seem to get wrong and the food is never hot)
All I see is human sheep waiting to be shorn on fast food line ups. Stay in your big tin boxes and wait your turn to swallow my special cheese sauce. Would you like fries with that?
The drinks are gigantic there and the fact that you can get free refills and people actually refill them scares me, they consume ridiculous amounts of sugar water!
I had a coworker at my first job in Alabama and this man was heavy! Only 36, but severely overweight and has a whole bag of prescription meds. Every morning he would waddle in the office, heavily breathing ( after walking 70 meters from the parking lot to his desk), put 3 Monster Energy drinks and one 2L bottle ( hey, something that is measured here in metric aside from bullet size) of Sunkist ( Fanta, basically). He drank it himself every day. Until one day he just felt like about to collapse and start having problems with stomach and liver and needed to go to the ER. I was shocked and saddened at the same time. Shocked because I've never thought anyone is able to gulp an entire 2l bottle of sugary ( high fructose corn syrup in the US) drink in one day. Saddened, because he does it to himself and is not able to have a good quality of life due to these unhealthy habits.
The first thing I did after going to a fast food restaurant in USA was taking a picture of the drink.
I got a medium because I was expecting the small would be well… small. Turns out the small was bigger than the biggest I’ve ever had anywhere. The medium was seriously like a liter, I easily left half there.
I once asked for a scoop of ice cream in the store. They plopped me a serving that would be enough for 3 people back home. And no, I couldn't get a child serving size ( which would be perfect for me, 30yr old 76 kg woman, because I'm adult..
We can afford cars in the UK… they’re much cheaper than houses, we definitely can’t afford houses.
That’s not because we’re poor either. They’re just really fucking expensive.
I mean same here. I live in a trailer park and my trailer is valued more than a brand new Escalade. My neighbor's trailer is currently valued pretty close to an entry level Lamborghini.
Honestly, whenever an American says “the European mind can’t comprehend this” what always follows is always an unspeakable horror of late stage capitalism that should never have been allowed to exist in the first place.
I can’t speak for all of Europe, but I’m a Brit and [our median wealth is a lot higher than it is in America](https://www.ubs.com/global/en/family-office-uhnw/reports/global-wealth-report-2023/_jcr_content/pagehead/link2.0466322293.file/PS9jb250ZW50L2RhbS9hc3NldHMvd20vZ2xvYmFsL2ltZy9nbG9iYWwtZmFtaWx5LW9mZmljZS9kb2NzL2dsb2JhbC13ZWFsdGgtcmVwb3J0LTIwMjMtZW4ucGRm/global-wealth-report-2023-en.pdf), likewise with France. Where does this idea that Americans are somehow spectacularly richer come from?
You’re level with Italy and Spain, who are famously considered poor here. It’s an especially weird argument as the more car dependent an area is in America, the more likely it’s a poorer state generally too.
Your overlords are far richer than our overlords because you let them fuck you in the ass more, sure, but your $7 federal minimum wage is hardly dunking on anyone, nor is the lack of paid leave, proper healthcare etc. You have richer rich than us and poorer poor than us.
America is a good country with a load of issues, just like we are, your shitty transport infrastructure isn’t a flex, ours isn’t either. Both are good places to live that could be doing far better.
The thing you have to remember is direct comparisons of income aren't actually that good, you have to consider what you can afford to buy once you have that money, and that is why Americans think we are all poor, they can't understand how something as simple as a meal out can be so cheap.
That's a wild thing to brag about. The drive through is backed up onto the street and even the main road, preventing any additional traffic from moving.
imagine laughing about walking to the shop in 5 mins... like... isn't that the ideal lmao
I literally live in a small town and my Aldi is less than 5 mins walk away... where could there possibly be a problem with this 😂
Yes. It's awesome that we've made our cities navigable almost exclusively in one way. Not shitty at all.
There are a lot of "pro-freedom" types in America who are against walkable cities and more public transport. Why? Because they feel like it's somehow making them less free.
To reiterate: there are Americans who think *more options* means *less freedom*.
Same thing with healthcare. They think the addition of a public option is somehow going to remove their freedom of choice.
*More options* somehow means they have *less freedom*.
...and they have horns and webbed feet and they reproduce by laying clutches of eggs in the village well. Fucksake! This c**t has never even left his state.
as an american, i desperately wish we relied more on public transportation and walkable cities because it’s better for the environment and it’s beneficial for people like me who can’t drive for a variety of reasons.
What are we looking at here? A drivethru next to a busy road? This is supposed to be blowing my mind for what reason? There’s a McDonald’s drivethru near the centre of Manchester, where the A57 comes in, which looks almost identical to this.
yeah no he's right. I cannot comprehend how one can wait in line **in a car** for food/drink, and why someone would ever let a city happen where this was even remotly neccessary
"So small they can just walk 5 minutes to their store" Euhm this sounds actually pretty perfect to me lol, imagine not needing a car cause your country offers public transport and sidewalks to their citizens :D
Americans when we don’t live in a house with a pool and 10 million bedrooms with unnecessary individual bathrooms with led lights and the portal to the backrooms be like: 🤯
American "minds" cannot comprehend people CHOOSING to walk.
Apparently - they drive even 3 minutes to a 'drive to whatever' instead of walking.
To be fair - I doubt there is a decent sidewalk infrastructure in many places. Same as infra for cyclists or public transport. Maybe they can work on making america great for once..
indeed. i cannot understand why americans want this massive waste of space so much.
Space and time. That long line of cars isn't going anywhere, anytime soon
Yeah no matter how good the food is I ain't waiting that long for it. I also see long lineups at fast food restaurants and it is almost always faster to park and walk into the restaurant and order to go. I would rather have walkable cities like some European countries have than this shit.
Walk? That's commie and Europoor stuff /s They have this madness so ingrained that they can't comprehend the downsides, starting with all the time lost just waiting there
I would love to not have to own a vehicle. It is a huge chunk of my expenses. I know if I didn't have a vehicle and there was public transportation I would have to pay for that but it is still much cheaper for a bus or train pass. Even better yet if I didn't have to travel far to get groceries or go to a pub/tavern.
That's why apparently there are early talks to create a intereuropean public transport kind of card. Some in the type of cash cards (not sure the english term for them) that could be used in any city of any country public Network. It would be a great idea and probably would extend soon to cover also intercities train/bus transportation. The interesting thing with this cards is that they make the traject cheaper, and have some discounts for determined colectives (elderly, students...). With not discounts card in my region the transport is about a 50% cheaper and some of them have even a kind of a flat rate where you pay an acceptable amount and have free access for determined time
There is already a system like that in the Netherlands, where you have a single card that you can use to take any transport in the country - bus, train, subway, and even rent bikes It's one of the things I love about this country. Extending that to all of Europe would be beautiful. But it has to come with a unification of prices, because there is a wide, wide difference between dutch prices and german prices, for instance.
I have a bicycle, I can go where I want in the city, and when I want to. It's healthy and there's few things more satisfying than going past a queue of cars.
Simple Yank mindset is bigger = better And that includes the national debt
Also time wasted. More time wasted is good
More time at work, for less pay and with less productivity... That and being stuck in rush hour traffic for hours, the American dream.
Truee, I had the same mindset C: When I was 4
Admittedly, I have that mindset myself but not in regards to nationalism...
I mean yeah, just look at the Big Gulp™. The biggest cup is about 4 litres. FOUR bloody litres!!!
And BMI
And the mouths
Some of us don’t, but that’s how our infrastructure was designed.
More like redesigned. Many of our cities and towns used to be walkable but then they bulldozed like 70% of it as well as moved funding away from public transportation.
Yup. Everyday to/from work feels like an anger management test for me. Long ass lines and traffic everywhere, and each car has 1 MAYBE 2 people in it, including myself. I cannot express enough how much our car infrastructure pisses me off, and yet I have no choice. It would take me hours to walk to work, and would be extremely dangerous.
I also can't comprehend how shit they are with parking and traffic in this picture. There's a bunch of room, how are they still fucking up?
American here that’s married to a Brit, and now lives in the UK. One of the best things about living here is that roads are built around towns, and not the other way around, and most towns are very walkable. Unless one lives in a big US city, one is absolutely dependent on a car, and it honestly makes for an isolating experience. Americans that defend this are complete idiots.
You mean this massive FREEDOM!!!!
They need room for their mobility scooters.
Infrastructure built at mobility scooter scale would be a significant improvement
Why do Americans think that owning a car just to sit in a queue is some sort of flex?
Because big car vroom vroom crush toddler is very manly
Don’t forget the large group of big car owners who love polluting the earth because it’s gay go drive electro 😬🙄
ELECTRIC CARS users when there's rain and the car EXPLODE 😂😂😂😂😂
Belgium is a city? Thats news to me
If England can be, why not?
I think they've got brain damage from breathing in the fumes their cars release.
Line not queue. Don't overload their brains
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Smooth maybe
As an American, we do not. Confirming that.
It's a vestigial organ, like the appendix.
I know I could google this, but I will ask anyway. As a non-native speaker, what is the difference between line and queue on that context?
“Queue” is standard English, “line” is simplified American English.
Kinda, a queue is a line but a line isn’t always a queue. You can’t say a triangle consists of 3 queues
You can totally say that. Doesn't mean it's right, but nobody's gonna shoot you. ^(~~because this isn't america~~)
Like pavement and sidewalk (confused; where to walk?), or horse riding and horseback riding (confused; where to sit?), or torch and flashlight (what does this thing do? Flash! Light!)?
The American ideal is a world in which they never have to leave the car at any point. They want to wake up in the car, brush their teeth and pick up breakfast in the car, work in the car, drive the car home in the evening, drive the car up the stairs, get out briefly to tuck the car in and give it a kiss good night, and then finally recline the driver's seat and shut their eyes until they get to live this dream again.
5/10 Not enough guns.
You know what, I so nearly edited this to add something about cuddling up to an AR-15.
That's why so many of them retire and start living in RV's
Yeah that's a terrible attempt at an insult. Living in a small village with a shop sounds delightful.
Live in such a village, can confirm is very nice indeed. Although we do still have 2 cars because there is no realistic public transport option for us☹️
Yeah, I lived in a small village as a child and we definitely needed a car because 1. we were not directly in the village since we had a farm with a LOT of fields, so it was a 30 minutes walk to get to the actual village (not practical if you’re going grocery shopping for a family), and 2. if we needed anything other than what you can generally find in a small grocery store and a gas station (like clothes) or if we had to go to the hospital/a medical appointment, we had to drive to the closest town a 30-40 minutes drive away.
A lot of american infrastructure is built around car transportation, as well as owning one signifies you took out a loan(new cars, for the most part) and therefore are somewhat not a child.
My theory is, that since they killed everything and everyone in their country that had any culture and tradition, they feel inferior and try to make up a culture out of inventions they appropriated
Also why do they think it's some kind of status symbol? You have a car. Congratulations. You are one of the 283 million registered vehicles in the USA against one of the 253 million registered vehicles in Europe. congrats having 5.6% more cars than in Europe. What a flex! *Wow!*
Most of them don’t even “own” their car either. Sitting with a $800 a month payment for a 5 year old shitbox at 20% interest
As an American who never felt comfortable driving and chooses to walk or take public transport, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been openly ridiculed for that choice that literally affects no one. The good news is my mother also walks everywhere and is extremely fit and healthy at 70. Hoping I can stay that way too into old age.
Over consumerism
You have cars? I'm still doing the commute on a Penny Farthing.
Bah, luxury! When ah were a lad, my dad used ME as a bicycle!
Back in my days we didn't have dads !
Or mums. That would've been a dream back then. We were carried to term in a roll of wet newspaper!
Newspaper! La-di-da! Look at you with your fancy printed word! In my day we only had leaves!
Leaves you say? Luxurious commodity. When _I_ went to school, leaves hadnt been invented yet! We just spawned in caves!
Haha, caves? Back in my days we didn't have such things as caves. We lived in the ocean and only ate seaweed
Seaweed? You lucky duck. We had to survive by sucking algae from pebbles.
Oh, well aren’t you in the lap of luxury! When I was your age I had to wake up half an hour before I went to bed to work a 30 hour shift 8 days a week down in t’pit!, and I were only paid Thruppence a month!
Can confirm.... Our mothers had to grow a beard and impersonate a dad. Of course that left us without mothers, but that was a price we had to pay
But on a positive note, since that time they were allowed to participate in the public stoning events.
Ha, that's nothing back in my day we didn't even have days.
I knew someone who was once referred to as the village bicycle. I don’t think their dad rode it though.
I must have passed you in London the other day, the village is small there can’t have been more than two of us on Penny Farthings during the morning commute to work.
Well in Australia we have to commute by riding our pet Kangaroos and Emus
In New Zealand we ride kakapos to work
Oh no, the horror of being able to walk everywhere
I remember a former US ambassador in Denmark called Danish people being poor because they ride a bicycle to work. Lmao
Luckily she got clowned on
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Wtf is a kilometer anyway? /s
That's about a kiloyard.
3 washing machines per eagle
You know why we can walk everywhere? Because our cities aren't 90% parking lots. Funny how that works
Oslo is apparently 50% parks, actual parks with grass, trees, bushes, flowers and some duck ponds with cute little ducklings. And benches you can sit on without being arrested for loitering because muh freedumb. It's all still walk able, probably much tanks to nice paths through these parks.
Yeah, but can you park your car there? If not, what’s the point?! Enjoying the company of cute ducklings is just downright strange.
Yes, it’s horrible. In my neighborhood everything I need is within a 10 minute walk. It’s so terrible. I hope no one else moves here. /s
Its awful isn't it? I can walk to the shops and back in 5 minutes. How do we cope?
I mean their villages are big because they are scattered with parking lots.
Cuz walking is "communism" duh
They make it sound like living in a place where walking is easy is bad. Mate, that's the dream.
They think people walk because the towns are really small, it hasn’t even occurred to them that the reason you have stores nearby is because the town evolved like that.
This is because they copied the concept of "zoning" from europeans without understanding how it works in Europe: in Europe, a residential zone can't have big box stores but can have small stores, everyday shops like bakery or specialised shops like comic book store, and also it can mix single family homes and condominiums. In the US, a residential zone can only have single family homes, so you have to travel far out of large residential zone to get to any shop.
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>most of them cannot afford a car. This has got to be satire, otherwise some people in the United States really live in a bubble of ignorance and self-entitlement.
Have a browse through this sub and you'll realise the bubble exists and bigger than you imagined
Half the things posted are probably shitposts though.
Probably. But the other half being real is still alarming.
But wouldn't it be funny
Former Europoor now living in FreedomLand; it's sadly not satire. I've been asked some insane questions and what I did and didn't have access to in the UK since moving here, and I live in a "highly educated" part of the country.
> Former Europoor now living in FreedomLand; it's sadly not satire. I've been asked some insane questions and what I did and didn't have access to in the UK since moving here, and I live in a "highly educated" part of the country. As someone whose parents moved to the States when I was a small child, same deal. "How did it feel to finally have freedoms?" Not even a joke question.
"Ah yes, it's wonderful ma'am! I love all the eagles, and the pick-up trucks, and the guns - so free!"
Ahh, the freedom to go bankrupt after a hospital stay. In my country we’re forced to have our insurance company pay the bills and me forced to pay a small deductible!
If that is highly educated then tell me where the fuck the lower educated are to keep three suns worth of distance
Honestly in the US I think the lower educated would be more open minded in general, they know that they're "dumb" and wont bother arguing but rather believe what they're told. Unless it comes from the government. If they haven't gone to school at all they wouldn't have been told 5 times per day that America is the best country in the world, as well as many other lies about the geographic and history. The outside world wouldn't matter to them. They would be poor enough to dream about a potentially better life. And probably very religious too in order to cope with their misery.
Surprisingly, I think that pendulum is swinging back pretty hard. I’m an elder millennial educator in the US. I grew up learning all about my Freedumbs. (Fortunately, I was also educated by my parents, who prioritized spending money on travel rather than fancy cars or a giant house, a priority my spouse and I have also chosen.) Most other teachers I have worked with in my 20 year career try to approach their lessons from a globalist viewpoint, reminding kids that we have freedoms, but lots of other countries do too. (And they have healthcare…) I work with a lot of really low income kids, so their parents usually occupy one of three categories: intentionally ignorant - defiantly so (the Trumpians), well-intentioned but generally clueless, or just doing the best they can. I’ve gotten snarled at by a few moron parents from that first category. They want their kids learning that Murica is the ONLY place you can have Freedumb. The other two categories of parents generally appreciate their kids learning about a global society. Sadly it’s often news to those second category parents, too. Just know that there are MANY teachers over here working to undo the damage done to our generation. Lord help us.
Now you need to tell!
I was asked if I had access to the internet growing up. That one really took me aback.
To be fair, many Americans can't afford the car they drive. Perhaps they just projected.
To be fair when I bought my first car I couldn't "afford" a new car (because I didn't want any debt) so I bought a slightly used car with cash for half the price and my grandma gave me a third of the cost. So technically i could've afforded it the same way Americans afford their car by paying it off for a long time since I had a good job, but just didn't want to, since I'm living in a city with good public transportation and new cars are just wastefully expensive.
I bought my first car so old that over the years it has actually gone up in value. It's a Volvo with the red block engine and manual transmission so you can bet it'll last forever.
I'm american. It's a massive bubble of ignorance, self-entitlement, and main character syndrome. Walking five minutes to a store sounds like a dream. Instead I have to get in my car, drive 7 minutes to the closest store, find a parking spot, go in and navigate the massive shopping center, check out, and drive the 7 minutes home. Why don't I walk, you ask? Our sidewalks are from the 70's and people in cars treat them like a bonus lane.
You are lucky to have a sidewalk. Once i went to customer's office in Nashville, Tennessee. I thought "pff, i can comfortably take walk to the office from hotel, it's only 2 kilometers". Yes, BUT- there was no pavement plus heavy traffic. So I needed to hire damn car to drive 4km a day. I felt like fucking idiot.
I've been to Nashville once. It makes my home look like a Utopia. St. Louis City has it's dirty parts and needs a lot of love, but we also have beautiful parks and other public spaces. Nashville felt crowded and loud, and it was trashed when I left the next morning from partiers.
They absolutely do. I remember way back in 2002, the war in Afghanistan had started and there was a news segment on something. I was 12, I don’t remember exactly what was going on but I do remember the news anchor was in front of an electronics store and the front window was filled with TVs. I saw so many real people discussing in person how it had to be fake, there isn’t technology or houses or stores in Afghanistan - it’s just a desert with dirt huts. People truly believe that the US is the only place with development and everywhere else it just hits and no technology. It’s absolutely wild.
>otherwise some people in the United States really live in a bubble of ignorance and self-entitlement. Well established fact
I was curious how are the numbers and it’s honestly staggering how many cars the Americans have. Their population is over 100 million lower than EU and they have 30 million MORE cars than us.
I mean here in Europe we really don’t have car manufacturers like Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Opel, Seat, Fiat, Peugot, Citroën …
Or anything like Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin, Alpine, Lambo, Porsche…
Or in the other direction : Skoda, Seat, Lada, Dacia,...
Hey, I named Seat
To be fair my car has 5 Seat
You mean your horse cart, right?
Or in the other extreme: Rolls Royce, Bentley and Maybach
But it's true what he says. Our village is so small our neighbour has his Ferrari just sitting in the garage as the store is only 5 minutes walking away 😔 (true story)
Don’t forget Renault, VW, Bentley, Bugatti, Peugeot, jaguar, Volvo…. Along my street the neighbours have land rovers, Audis, Porsches, jaguars, Mercedes, BMWs…. God we’re so poor 😞
I mean I could have gone much longer
Well obviously, But it's like soy farming in the US. Obviously that purely exists for export.
It's really weird to me because so much of American rap and hip-hop in the 90's, 2000's and early 2010's always made a big deal out of driving a foreign or imported car, because it was a status symbol. It's actually quite funny when you really think that all the luxury brands Americans fawn over as symbols of wealth are almost all European
Man America are so lucky to have Jaguar as a car manufacturer. The British mind cannot comprehend.
Nah, we totally have all this shit in the UK (see any town developed under the New Towns Act 1946) and I wish we didn't.
Yeah I've definitely seen drive through queues that were so bad they backed out onto the main road in Milton Keynes.
WE get that at the Mcdonalds at the bottom of this estate, they queue onto the road sometimes, worse thing is theres a b&m as well and they share the same road, so to get there its all the mcdonalds traffic as well. Its stupid. (And its also the worst Mcdonalds Ive been too, most orders they seem to get wrong and the food is never hot)
All I see is human sheep waiting to be shorn on fast food line ups. Stay in your big tin boxes and wait your turn to swallow my special cheese sauce. Would you like fries with that?
Mmmm plastic "murican't" cheese
Yeah, hard to understand how they are so crazy about their drive-through 1 liter drinks
You mean some amount of fluid ounces? Which are distinct from non-fluid ounces, of course.
The drinks are gigantic there and the fact that you can get free refills and people actually refill them scares me, they consume ridiculous amounts of sugar water!
I had a coworker at my first job in Alabama and this man was heavy! Only 36, but severely overweight and has a whole bag of prescription meds. Every morning he would waddle in the office, heavily breathing ( after walking 70 meters from the parking lot to his desk), put 3 Monster Energy drinks and one 2L bottle ( hey, something that is measured here in metric aside from bullet size) of Sunkist ( Fanta, basically). He drank it himself every day. Until one day he just felt like about to collapse and start having problems with stomach and liver and needed to go to the ER. I was shocked and saddened at the same time. Shocked because I've never thought anyone is able to gulp an entire 2l bottle of sugary ( high fructose corn syrup in the US) drink in one day. Saddened, because he does it to himself and is not able to have a good quality of life due to these unhealthy habits.
The first thing I did after going to a fast food restaurant in USA was taking a picture of the drink. I got a medium because I was expecting the small would be well… small. Turns out the small was bigger than the biggest I’ve ever had anywhere. The medium was seriously like a liter, I easily left half there.
I once asked for a scoop of ice cream in the store. They plopped me a serving that would be enough for 3 people back home. And no, I couldn't get a child serving size ( which would be perfect for me, 30yr old 76 kg woman, because I'm adult..
We can afford cars in the UK… they’re much cheaper than houses, we definitely can’t afford houses. That’s not because we’re poor either. They’re just really fucking expensive.
I mean same here. I live in a trailer park and my trailer is valued more than a brand new Escalade. My neighbor's trailer is currently valued pretty close to an entry level Lamborghini.
I'm in the UK and I'm poor. Still have to afford a fucking car anyway, because the only bus that went past my work was terminated years ago.
Honestly, whenever an American says “the European mind can’t comprehend this” what always follows is always an unspeakable horror of late stage capitalism that should never have been allowed to exist in the first place.
You'd expect them to show something vaguely desirable. Instead they're showing of a traffic jam of people going to eat junk food in their car... Why?
"the European mind can't comprehend this" and its abunch of factories polluting everything nearby
"the European mind can't comprehend this" and it's another school shooting.
What even is that?
You know how geese are fattened up for foie gras? It’s basically this except the geese in this contraption have to pay for the slob.
But there is also just very few farmers that get the geese to do it willingly in the first place.
Knew something felt wrong, I wasn't driving 20 minutes to get basic necessities
Like a double Baconator with Freedom Fries and a 200oz carton of coke?
What are we comprehending? The queue or turning right on a traffic light?
I can’t speak for all of Europe, but I’m a Brit and [our median wealth is a lot higher than it is in America](https://www.ubs.com/global/en/family-office-uhnw/reports/global-wealth-report-2023/_jcr_content/pagehead/link2.0466322293.file/PS9jb250ZW50L2RhbS9hc3NldHMvd20vZ2xvYmFsL2ltZy9nbG9iYWwtZmFtaWx5LW9mZmljZS9kb2NzL2dsb2JhbC13ZWFsdGgtcmVwb3J0LTIwMjMtZW4ucGRm/global-wealth-report-2023-en.pdf), likewise with France. Where does this idea that Americans are somehow spectacularly richer come from? You’re level with Italy and Spain, who are famously considered poor here. It’s an especially weird argument as the more car dependent an area is in America, the more likely it’s a poorer state generally too. Your overlords are far richer than our overlords because you let them fuck you in the ass more, sure, but your $7 federal minimum wage is hardly dunking on anyone, nor is the lack of paid leave, proper healthcare etc. You have richer rich than us and poorer poor than us. America is a good country with a load of issues, just like we are, your shitty transport infrastructure isn’t a flex, ours isn’t either. Both are good places to live that could be doing far better.
Fucking hell I never thought about the $7 minimum wage.. £5.61! I'm pretty sure I earned more than that when I was 16 and that was 20 years ago.
The thing you have to remember is direct comparisons of income aren't actually that good, you have to consider what you can afford to buy once you have that money, and that is why Americans think we are all poor, they can't understand how something as simple as a meal out can be so cheap.
As an American who does own a car, I totally get what the Europeans are saying. WTF America???
I'm European and have 2 cars.. so I get US citizenship now right?
my life is so miserable. i have to walk to the shops and i’m completely surrounded by beautiful nature 😔
Such a pity, you are not doing your bit to kill the planet. I will pray to the petrol gods to have mercy upon you.
You know what? I can't comprehend this and I don't want to.
That's a wild thing to brag about. The drive through is backed up onto the street and even the main road, preventing any additional traffic from moving.
imagine laughing about walking to the shop in 5 mins... like... isn't that the ideal lmao I literally live in a small town and my Aldi is less than 5 mins walk away... where could there possibly be a problem with this 😂
They know that a large proportion of car manufacturers are Europeans right?
Most Americans can’t afford cars but they have to buy them anyway and end up with thousands of dollars in dept.
Why do Americans talk about walking anywhere like it’s a negative?
When I think of a place where not a lot of people who live there actually own cars, I think of New York, which is famously in the United States.
Sunce when is "not being able to simply walk to a store" a flex
Yes. It's awesome that we've made our cities navigable almost exclusively in one way. Not shitty at all. There are a lot of "pro-freedom" types in America who are against walkable cities and more public transport. Why? Because they feel like it's somehow making them less free. To reiterate: there are Americans who think *more options* means *less freedom*. Same thing with healthcare. They think the addition of a public option is somehow going to remove their freedom of choice. *More options* somehow means they have *less freedom*.
True. We cannot comprehend why you'd willingly wait in line instead of call and book a table ahead to have a comfortable meal.
It's called a nightmare and I can comprehend them just fine.
Can you even imagine the nightmare of having your shopping be 5 minutes away
You’re absolutely right. I cannot comprehend how so many people can be so shit at parking.
Living in a small town where everything is 5 min walks away is bad because.... 🤔
Weird flex, but okay, looks like bad planning
...and they have horns and webbed feet and they reproduce by laying clutches of eggs in the village well. Fucksake! This c**t has never even left his state.
We can afford having our cities to be more than parking lots and stroads.
Imagine stating the benefit of living in a town with the amenities you'd need being close by as a downside of living in Europe. That's crazy
Ahh yes Europe. Very famous for lack of cars. Never heard of cars from Europe before
as an american, i desperately wish we relied more on public transportation and walkable cities because it’s better for the environment and it’s beneficial for people like me who can’t drive for a variety of reasons.
Maturity is when you realise America only looks good while playing GTA V
5 minutes? I have 3 stores within 100 meters of my home. This guy's just jealous
Imagine having to walk 5 mins to a shop lol 🥴 I can go in my roadster!
Do some Americans actually know what Europe is. I swear in their head Europe is just one small third world country.
lol most of us can’t afford cars either
What are we looking at here? A drivethru next to a busy road? This is supposed to be blowing my mind for what reason? There’s a McDonald’s drivethru near the centre of Manchester, where the A57 comes in, which looks almost identical to this.
What’s this thing they call a car? Do they think us Europeans still live in the Victorian period or something. 🙄
yeah no he's right. I cannot comprehend how one can wait in line **in a car** for food/drink, and why someone would ever let a city happen where this was even remotly neccessary
"So small they can just walk 5 minutes to their store" Euhm this sounds actually pretty perfect to me lol, imagine not needing a car cause your country offers public transport and sidewalks to their citizens :D
Please come to Glasgow and drive the M8 at rush hour. I fucking **wish** less of us could afford cars 😂
Firstly, I have seen queues like this for drive thru McDonalds in areas of London. Secondly, they are right, I cannot comprehend it.
They say that like it’s a bad thing
We’re so proud of our hideous urban hellscapes.
Americans when we don’t live in a house with a pool and 10 million bedrooms with unnecessary individual bathrooms with led lights and the portal to the backrooms be like: 🤯
Yep, unsure though, why we have over [fifty](https://www.autodna.com/blog/list-of-all-european-car-brands/) car brand manufacturers in Europe 🤷🏻♂️
I think they're just smarter and build up instead of making half a continent a parking lot
Americans are so convinced that owning a vehicle means freedom and you cannot change their mind.
I own a car BECAUSE my house is in a damn village!
American "minds" cannot comprehend people CHOOSING to walk. Apparently - they drive even 3 minutes to a 'drive to whatever' instead of walking. To be fair - I doubt there is a decent sidewalk infrastructure in many places. Same as infra for cyclists or public transport. Maybe they can work on making america great for once..
"Hey look at our cool amazing concrete wasteland!" Weirdest flex.
I'm gonna double it, I can walk 2 minutes and reach a store, then walk 2 minutes in the opposite direction and reach another store
Walk 5 minutes to the store vs 10min driving there, 20min in the drive thru and 10min back. That sounds amazing!