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.
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 could go point by point and counter these, but this one stood out the most (besides the optimism one, already covered).
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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