Thank you NHS

Yes they should, there are so many threads about this issues here and I can't stop thinking why there are no loud protests for any of the above

It didn't occur to me until now, but shopping malls essentially simulate shopping, on foot, in a town. Except you have to drive a car to get a mall, malls are impersonal and bland, offering the same things as other malls, and they rarely have good restaurants.

It actually does not even cross our minds..

Chatting to another parent at my son's nursery who had moved from the US and she said the first time she heard a loud bang and her first thought was 'gunshot' then the realisation that it was incredibly unlikely (UK) was really strange for her.

Move to Canada!

Yeah, this is getting old. I'm not dismissing the gun problem in the US, but the only time I ever heard gun shot was in France. I was also on a train in France that got shot with an assault rifle and the guy checking the tickets shrugged it off as being something that happens from time to time. In my 12 years living in the US I have never heard a single gun shot.

Stabbed yes, but shot only by the Russians, if they invade you can throw snowballs at them, as your armed forces have become useless, and you depend on the U.S. for your ultimate defense. You may not see that, but then we are talking about blind here anyway.

Yes this is just insane in the states, I still don't understand why it is still allowed to have guns, just crazy.

That's because everybody realised how bad Dunblane was, and how it should never have happened, so we changed our gun laws for the better

My daughter and I were in Madrid last year, walking down a major street. There was a sudden, loud banging noise, and we crouched down and pressed ourselves against a building, hearts racing. Everyone else just kept walking as if nothing happened. Then we noticed the construction dumpster. Workers had dropped a large piece of something into it from an upper floor. We realized that we are traumatized simply by being American.

Those pesky acid attacks and knifings, though. Oh and the beheadings from certain member's of that "religion of tolerance" because of any cartoon of an imaginary "prophet", who married a child, or even accusations of such, getting people's heads lopped off.

Very few areas in the USA that you would even think about it.

It's sickening.

We have to worry about getting stabbed though in some countries here in Europe on the way to work

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Paris might disagree

German and Austrian bakery is without doubt the best in the world in my opinion. I worked in France as well, theirs is good, but not a patch on Germany.

Not only "less sugar", but also "better sugar". High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), one of the main drivers of the obesity epidemic in the USA, exists in Europe but it has HALF the sugar content of the american version, and it is not nearly as omnipresent. European food industry prefers cane and beet sugar (sucrose), and they use much less of it in any product. The average pro-capite sugar intake in the USA is 25% higher than Germany's, that is the EU state with the highest sugar consumption by a good margin.

Yeah I remember my uni flatmate bringing us Hersheys Kisses as a “treat” when she came back after xmas break…they tasted cheesey

Lack of high fructose corn syrup in everything imaginable.

Well American drinking culture is pretty messed up. In Europe, you might give a kid a bit of small beer or wine with dinner, but in the USA that is borderline child abuse. So the kids don't learn to hold their booze until they're on their own and have no guidance from their family.

When it becomes "lavish" to expect that kids will come home from school every day, something is deeply wrong.

Exposure to different cultures? My neighbors on one side are Korean, my neighbors on the other are from Myanmar. The couple 2 houses over is from India, on the other side is a Russian gentleman. The grocery store on the corner is Somali and next to that is a Sushi place run by Mongolians. And I live in the suburbs. What culture were you looking for? I haven't even gone over the restaurants.

And real pate (that doesn't cost an arm and a leg).

Amazing how companies in other countries can have decent paid leave and still manage to make a profit. Are American companies really that bad at what they do?

I still can’t believe the US doesn’t have those.

We do pay more for processed food, because sugar is more expensive.

I always find this a crazy situation. No wonder so many Americans are stressed out the whole time as they have to always be better than most of their colleagues to be relatively safe from dismissal. And it just takes a personality clash or your boss having a bad day to lose your job 😕

Sigh, since brexit those days are long gone, thank you racist old people.

I didn't pay for my PhD, I was actually paid to do it :D

And Suella Braverman, who took advantage of this excellent program, worked hard for Brexit to ensure that future British students couldn't take advantage.

Since this is a German train in the picture: fast maybe, but not on time 😜

I don’t miss much about living in Japan, but my god do I miss the public transport.

This includes rules about bosses not contacting employees whilst they are not working.

All these European government benefits are affordable because those countries are not obsessed with ruling the entire world. A huge military budget kills everything that might help America actually become great again.

There were people here before 1492, and they built structures...even pyramids.

Gotta eat with the season.

This misconception is common among Americans, for some weird reason. The usual lunch break in Europe is 30 minutes to an hour. Some places in southern Spain, Greece and Italy have a longer break, to provide shelter during the hotter hours of the day, but it is limited to a few regions, jobs and is not so common anymore. Something notable, Greece has at the same time the longest lunch breaks (up to 3 hours) and the shortest average lunch break (19 minutes) due to over 40% of the workers opting to skip lunch break and a further 35% opting to have just a 15 minute break, but go home earlier.

Especially when you leave near the french-italian border: you get the best viennoiseries and the best coffee in the same places. This is heaven to me.

Munich one of the best bike cities? Ahahaha 😂.... no!

Well, in the US we've decided that the war on drugs is so important that we need to take drastic action. No, not like invest in ending poverty or treatment programs or decriminalizing addicts. We just thought it was important to not give people a place to shoot up in public, and for that we're willing to watch other people take a s**t. It's called sacrifice! *insert crying eagle here*