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42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Windows with screens. When I lived in Geneva, I was in a sixth-floor walk-up flat with no A/C. I was in for a very unfortunate surprise when the weather got warm and I opened the windows only for bugs to swarm in. No screens! How was I supposed to sleep in a hot bedroom and I couldn’t even open my tiny window for some air flow?!

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26points

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Verena 3 months ago

You go to the next DIY-shop and buy them to your liking (color, material) as every European does. They get fixed with velcro liner. Too many reasons why it is done like this in Europe.

38points

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42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To The ability to use restrooms without charge.

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Ace 3 months ago

Just like most of the world. Cm'on people, this is largely a myth, most public toilets in most places across the world are free.

11points

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42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To School facilities. As a rural Canadian, I grew up watching American TV and was always seething with jealousy over American schools. I was especially jealous that Americans could sign up for the school play and meet a teenage heartthrob. We didn’t have school plays, or a theatre in general, or band, or football, or a swimming pool, or art classes.

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22points

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Jan Rosier 3 months ago (edited)

French situation is pretty much the same as in Belgium. And I consider it an advantage: kids who sign up for extracurricular after school (arts, sports...) tend to be motivated to do so, and more importantly : being good or bad at whatever you choose or donot choose, has absolutely no influence on your school grades.

10points

Space. We have so much space. Lived in Japan for 2 years and space is what I missed the most. Bigger cars, houses, trees, cities (more area), businesses, etc… other places mostly seem so cramped. Even bigger cities like Chicago have so much more room comparatively.

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21points

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rullyman 3 months ago

My prefecture in Japan was 88% forest. There was loads of space. What there wasn't was massive pointless roads.

16points

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42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Our cheap gas.

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18points

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Pamela24 3 months ago

I'll take the more expensive gas over not having to drive everywhere.

8points

Kiss Army 3 months ago

YES! I wouldn't mind having higher gas prices if we had adequate public transportation and less urban sprawl. Unless you live in select large cities, you can't get by without a car... with proper alternatives, I would love to not have to drive!

2points

Robert T 3 months ago

I'll take free healthcare over cheap gas, thank you.

5points

Vidas Zlioba 3 months ago

I think you meant to write, "I'll take expensive gas, and cheap healthcare." You are not getting anything for "free."

-1point

Andrei Iepure 3 months ago

not everyone exchanges freedom for oil

2points

Caro Caro 3 months ago

Compared to??? European country? African? Asian? What - where?????

2points

Lil Miss Hobbit 3 months ago

Canada for one. Where I am currently (midwest USA) it's $2.94 per gallon. In Ontario where I used to live, it was up to nearly $8 per gallon.

2points

Alexandra 3 months ago

I'm not partaking of the 'fossil fuel' discussion, but the downside of cheap gas is that you tend to consume more of it than necessary.

1point

Human #1,232,867 3 months ago

Just add the cost of war USA did to it to get the final price.

1point

Daniel Gómez 3 months ago

We all know why it's cheap there though, it ends up being very expensive for other countries, and not necessarily in terms of money.

1point

El Dee 3 months ago

On the one hand this is correct. Prices for petrol and diesel are equivalent to $10 a US Gallon (more for an Imperial Gallon) On the other hand most countries (if not all) in Europe tend to use more efficient cars that are somewhat smaller. So spending on fuel is no greater and perhaps even less..

1point

Rali Meyer 3 months ago

And distances are shorter. (like by the factor of 1.609 at least) ;-)

0points

Pandarosa 3 months ago

A lot of collateral damage tho

0points

Dorma Hughes 3 months ago

Electric vehicles must be plugged in to the power grid to charge. Where do people think the power comes from? It's just free and non-polluting, right?

-1point

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42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Excellent water pressure in showers. When abroad, showers are like a flower watering pot. I like to feel my shower. Make the pressure strong enough to tear my skin off, then back it off like 10%.

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16points

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Noname 3 months ago

The water pressure issue in showers has more to do with the water saving device installed in most shower heads than the pressure into the building itself.

15points

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42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Great disability access. I can go to any place — theatre, store, office, school, whatever — with confidence that I'll be able to navigate fine in my wheelchair, and they'll have ramps and/or elevators.

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15points

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Jrog 3 months ago (edited)

As in most of the developed world. European accessibility laws are in fact stricter than ADA's. Americans often complains about very old, historical buildings not being fully accessible, but that is a very rare exception that needs to be thoroughly motivated and specifically approved by the town council.

18points

In the early 2000s I asked a refugee from Somalia what if she liked it here. She said yes. "What's your favorite thing?" I said.

"If my house starts on fire I can call 911 and someone will come put it out."

"Oh. Yeah. That's awesome.".

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14points

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Rachknits 3 months ago

Again, a developed country thing, not a US thing

31points

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#10

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Garbage collection. When I traveled a little bit, one of the things that struck me most was the amount of garbage in the streets and piled in fields. There is no municipal collection in some parts of the world.

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13points

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Ace 3 months ago

Not a US vs the world thing, just a developed nation thing.

50points

#11

Unless you truly live in the middle of nowhere, access to good Mexican food is basically guaranteed.

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12points

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Ace 3 months ago

OK, I'll grant you that one, although a lot of it is more Tex-Mex than authentic Mexican, but I do wish we could get it more in Europe.

8points

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#12

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To That at school your child can get free services like speech therapy.

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9points

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Jrog 3 months ago

Our school have speech therapy, special needs teaching, free lunch and psychological counseling. What we don't have are active shooter drills and metal detectors at the door.

48points

#13

Access to all types of climates and natural wonders in a single country. You like mountains? Go west. Beaches? There are lots of American cities located right by the sea. Like the cold? We've got Alaska! Deserts, canyons, waterfalls, geysers, forests? Got you covered all in one country where people speak one language and use one currency.

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7points

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AutumnGirl 3 months ago

Hello from Chile 😬

32points

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#14

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Controlling the temperature of your home to whatever you want 24/7/365.

Most other developed countries are either good at heating or good at AC, but rarely both.

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5points

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pep Ito 3 months ago

Again, no one in Europe is stopping you from installing an aerothermal system if you have the money and the space.

15points

#15

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Back yards! Even if it’s small, a patch of land attached to your residence that no one but you has access to is something most people in cities in east, southeast, and South Asia can only dream of.

Pemulis_DMZ , Marianne / Pexels Report

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5points

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Robert T 3 months ago

Oh, you mean a garden.

17points

cashmerecat999 , Clay Banks / Unsplash Report

#16

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Libraries. The American public library system is very advanced. It's also, general speaking, free to use.

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2points

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Jan Rosier 3 months ago

again, what do these people think, Europe is an illiterate dump?

28points

Mr_Lumbergh , Bluewater Sweden / Unsplash Report

#17

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To We essentially bathe in drinking water.

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1point

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Ace 3 months ago

You essentially drink over-chlorinated water that tastes awful.

17points

#18

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Regular street-sweeping. You won’t notice it until you go somewhere without it.

emoyer68 , Adit Prabowo / Pexels Report

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1point

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Ace 3 months ago (edited)

I've been to lots of American cities where this is not a normal feature. Living in Switzerland I always noticed how relatively dirty American city streets were (when visiting on frequent business trips).

23points

sugarface2134 , Max Vakhtbovycn / Pexels Report

#19

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Dryers that actually dry clothes. I'm American but my new apartment has a European style 2 in 1 washer/dryer which i thought was cool at first until I used it and it takes 4 hours for a dry cycle, is soooo loud, and the clothes still come out a little damp. I miss my American sized washer dryer separate units

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0points

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Guy-Incognito 3 months ago

Aussie, never owned a dryer. Hang it on a clothes line!

10points

#20

Hot water. Grew up off grid, and hot water from the tap meant you had to have the water pump working and you had to have water in the catchment. Plus propane for the water heater, so hot water wasn't a guaranteed thing. Been living in "real" houses for the last 15 years and everytime I turn on a hot shower I'm still thankful .

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-3points

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pep Ito 3 months ago

This OP looks like the stereotypical American citizen who thinks that outside the US we all live in the Middle Ages.

11points

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#21

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Owning a separate car for every driver in a household.

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-5points

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Miki 3 months ago (edited)

Isn't it related to more evolved public transport everywhere else?

44points

#22

Drinks with ice ‼️Apparently Europeans don’t like ice. Room temperature drinks don’t quench my thirst.

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-7points

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Marianne 3 months ago

No ice doesn't mean romme temperature. I have never been in a restaurant where I was served a drink that was not cooled.

26points

#23

Flushing toilet paper in the actual toilet.

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-7points

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Miki 3 months ago

Isn't it a problem in just few places like some Greek islands?

10points

#24

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Vegetarian and vegan options.

smar82 , Lina Kivaka / Pexels Report

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-7points

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rullyman 3 months ago

Massively country dependent. UK is great for both- vegetarians have been catered here for about 100 years but vegans have lately been considered too. India has arguably the best vegetarian cooking in the world, and they are lacto vegetarians, so you just need to find dishes without milk to go vegan. Any country with a strong Buddhist presence will have vegan options- you may have to learn to ask for a monks meal.

18points

#25

The public education system, like having the ability to go to a school that’s covered by taxes; sure, it’s not perfect, and there’s always issues, but there are many people throughout the world that have never had this sort of opportunity that I think we in wealthier nations often take for granted.

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-8points

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Andrei Iepure 3 months ago

Well, we can go to school and not get shot

37points

#26

While it's true that you will have to drive great distances to get where you want to go, the interstate highway system and the rest areas are a unique feature of the American landscape. In other countries they do not exist, or have been replaced by commercial enterprises. A gas station with a donut shop on the side of the road is not the same as a rest stop.

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-10points

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pep Ito 3 months ago

I thought motorways were invented in Italy and Germany and there are motorways all over Europe. Maybe I've been seeing hallucinations

27points

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#27

The single family home.

The vast majority of people live in apartments or row houses/townhouses.

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-11points

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Ripley 3 months ago

Has this person actually been anywhere outside the US? Housing styles are completely dependent on where you live, and it's generally not country related, but city/suburbs/regional/rural related. Source: someone sitting in a detached house in an area of detached housing in Sydney, NSW.

20points

#28

Clean drinking water. My folks traveled the world quite a bit and said that they were amazed every time they returned to the US that there is (or was, a couple of decades ago) clean water out of almost every tap or water readily available nearby. We don't realize how incredible and rare this is, and so we take it for granted.

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-11points

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Jrog 3 months ago

My mind goes to Flint, Michigan...

22points

#29

People obeying traffic signals. Guy I used to work with who was from an African country I cannot recall(this was 15+ years ago) said one of the most suprising things he saw when he immigrated was that people actually obeyed traffic lights. He said where he came from they were treated more like mild suggestions.

bigloser42 Report

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-13points

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Andrei Iepure 3 months ago

We follow the clouds over here. If it rains we stop and dance on the hood

6points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#30

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To The ability to buy anything you can think of and buying online arrives in less than a week...often in two or three days.

A lot of countries just don't have the access to big box stores or infinite option online merchants.

phoenix14830 , Artem Podrez / Pexels Report

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-16points

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pep Ito 3 months ago

I think OP thinks the rest of the world doesn't shop online.

23points

#31

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Traveling to other countries without an approved visa.

James_p_hat , nappy / Pexels Report

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-16points

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Ace 3 months ago (edited)

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/2024-power-passport-visa-free-travel/ Here are the top 10 rankings for the most powerful passports in 2024, and the number of other countries these passport holders can visit, without having to obtain a visa in advance. 1. France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain (194 destinations) 2. Finland, South Korea, Sweden (193 destinations) 3. Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands (192 destinations) 4. Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom (191 destinations) 5. Greece, Malta, Switzerland (190 destinations) 6. Australia, Czechia, New Zealand, Poland (189 destinations) 7. Canada, Hungary, United States (188 destinations) 8. Estonia, Lithuania (187 destinations) 9. Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia (186 destinations) 10. Iceland (185 destinations)

25points

King_in_a_castle_84 , Hanson Lu / Unsplash Report

#32

42 Times Americans Realized Their Everyday Comforts Were Luxuries In Countries They Traveled To Fully stocked grocery stores. Life post-COVID showed me how much of a luxury this actually is. I can so vividly remember driving to the store to pick up some things only to find half-empty shelves.

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-18points

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Ace 3 months ago

This one's patently nonsense. Sure, COVID interrupted supplies of some things in the US and elsewhere, but why would you think that the rest of the world has not recovered just like the US did?

17points

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#33

Potable tap water.

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-20points

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Diolla 3 months ago

Our Dutch tap water is so good it's also bottled and sold in shops (Sourcy brand).

9points

#34

Multiples of electronics, i.e., TVs, computers, gaming systems.

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-20points

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pep Ito 3 months ago

This op has never left the US in his life.

25points

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#35

The right to protest, hold whatever backwards belief you want, and say whatever you want (of course if it isn’t true threats or fighting words).

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-20points

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Guy-Incognito 3 months ago

...and get run over by maga nuts for exercising that right or shot.

18points

#36

The freedom to speak openly about your political and personal beliefs, no matter how stupid or uninformed they are.

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-22points

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pep Ito 3 months ago

And this from a citizen of a country where the cancellation of people was invented not only by deeds but also by words said decades ago.

17points

#37

Fresh fruit from around the world every day of the year.

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-22points

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pep Ito 3 months ago

Apart from the fact that you can find it in any developed country, local fruit is always better.

21points

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#38

Currency that doesn’t devalue every other month.

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-23points

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Guy-Incognito 3 months ago

Yet can't pay living wages or fund healthcare....

25points

#39

Spices. Less than 100 years ago paprika was as expensive saffron.

xxwerdxx Report

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-24points

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Jrog 3 months ago

Maybe in the USA, but my bet is on OP being just clueless. Paprika is dried bell pepper, it has never been expensive nor rare. It's a staple in Spanish and Eastern European cuisine because it used to be cheap and much more available than exotic spices imported from the east.

17points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

#40

Not caring about customer support. « ill just buy another one »

They dont understand that once you pay for something, its supposed to work as long as physically possible.

Too many dollars on their hands.

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-24points

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Jrog 3 months ago

This is an uniquely american thing in my experience. European warranty and consumer protection laws are much more effective than US's.

22points

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#41

This is a hot take but the healthcare. I was born in Europe and have a lot of family still there. In Europe my aunt got cancer. When she needed scans the wait was counted in months. The hospital was terrible, more like a prison with old outdated equipment (this is in a big cosmopolitan European city not some podunk town)

My wife got cancer in the US. When she needed a scan it was ordered by the doctor and she was headed down within the hour. Her room was like a five star hotel.

Sure in Europe it was free, but you get what you pay for. Here my insurance covered all of this amazing care, once I paid the $2500 a year in deductibles everything was free last that point.

My aunt passed, my wife is alive and thriving.

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-24points

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Miki 3 months ago

In Europe you can use a private care that you will pay for. And probably still pay less.

28points

#42

Being able to get insulin. As much as the cost of it sucks, it's still available at all. I haven't missed a single day of taking it in over 41 years. It's why I'm not dead.

Government funded dialysis care. I'm not on dialysis but I used to work in the field for years. If you need it, you get it. Without those 3 3-4 hour treatments a week, those people would die.

Lack of actual wars in our country for over a century has been pretty nice too.

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-34points

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Ace 3 months ago

Wha? Have you ever been to a country with no pharmacies? Insulin is available everywhere, and yes, mostly a lot cheaper than in the US.

28points

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What do you think ?

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Shane P 3 months ago

Lol most of these are just blatantly false and unchecked, just like I would expect from most Americans. My favorite is spinning the fact that Americans pay an arm and a leg for healthcare to be a good thing because it somehow makes it more timely. Lol

27points

Tyranamar Seuss 3 months ago

That was so bad I choked. What American still believes that c**p?

2points

Momifer 3 months ago

Healthcare varies though, doesn't it? It depends on where you live and the doctors/resources in the area. I think that's a universal kind of thing. Not everywhere in the US has quick services or even good services. Would it be a fair statement that not everywhere in Europe is the same?

0points

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Verena 3 months ago

It would have been enlightning if the OPs had named the country where they experienced the deficiency

17points

Caro Caro 3 months ago

Yeah, you read it as if the OP has been to ONE country outside the US and thinks it's "the world". There's a vast difference between countries, continents.

9points

Justin Tyme 3 months ago

Being able to pay (huge amounts of money) for healthcare while the government spends trillions of dollars to lose wars all over the world instead of funding healthcare. What!? You mean other countries don't get this great privilege?

11points

Layla Layla 3 months ago

💯

1point

Boy-Ahn 3 months ago

Well, this was a steaming pile of çrāp.

7points

Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 3 months ago

Why do all of these posts about the US turn into "let's hate on Americans"?

6points

Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 3 months ago

The majority of us are perfectly normal likeable people...

3points

John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 3 months ago (edited)

Because you call it upon yourself with this kind of America is the greatest-posts. It's not. Much of this c**p stems from ignorant and proud of it-people

2points

Rafael 3 months ago

Agree that most of you are allright. "Let's mock American redditors" is more adequate perhaps?

0points

Ervin Conn 3 months ago

As an American I find this entire list embarrasing.

4points

Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 3 months ago

Yeah, me too.

4points

John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 3 months ago

Typical ignorant-american rant

3points

Julie S 3 months ago

I swear that whomever puts these posts on here do it on purpose to stir up arguments amongst us all. They make out that all Americans are arrogant and think they are the best and they also think the rest of the world are plebs but the majority of Americans don't think that way.

3points

S. K. 3 months ago

How about the ways the U.S. has seemed backwards to people who have gone there? - Garbage collection is still done by people physically lifting the bins into the truck - Internet banking is virtually non-existent. - Public transport is atrocious in most areas - The lack of affordable healthcare is Neanderthal - The violence of the society is unmatched by any country that doesn't have d**g cartels or a civil war - The anti-abortion laws... I could go on.

3points

Thrillion 3 months ago

I sincerely hope you don't believe these generalizations just as the original posts are wrong to generalize.

2points

Ian Webling 3 months ago

Have any of these OPs actually been out of the US or did they write their pieces based on Fox propaganda. I live in a Third World country and agreed with only two of 42 opinions.

2points

Mimi M 3 months ago

42 Times BP figured out another way to be passive-aggressive to the USA and Americans in a petty, immature way...

0points

Guess Undheit 3 months ago

Remember 2015 when scumbag Shkreli increased the price of a medicine FIFTY TIMES higher from $13.50 to $750? (The same medicine cost $1 in Europe.) Compare that with Indian pharmaceutical company Cipla which in 2019 reformulated an HIV medication, changing it from a metallic and alcohol tasting liquid (children with HIV wouldn't take it) to a crystals that taste like strawberries and could be mixed with milk (which children happily drank). Cipla sold it to African countries for about $1 per dose, $365 per year to save children's lives. It cost Cipla SIX HUNDRE DOLLARS per year of medicine, meaning they were losing money on every child they saved, but saving hundreds of thousands of children from a death sentence. That's something you would never see a yank company do. [ https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/04/health/strawberry-flavored-pediatric-hiv-d**g-trnd/index.html ]

0points

DrBronxx 3 months ago

A list of people who either think that the rest of the world is still in the Stone Age, or who went to very specific places, and think those places represented "rest of world"

0points

Marcus Lynch 3 months ago

Some of these things are unfortunately the same things that are wrong with America. Not the water thing though. I like clean water. Alot.

0points

Drilbur 3 months ago

I feel like everyone here forgets there's more to the world than just America and Eruope. Most of the posts are likely referring to third world countries that don't have the same luxuries.

0points

Dave Pearson 3 months ago

What a load of claptrap. The worst BP Doom scroll I ever saw. Have any of the OPs ever actually left the US??? I doubt it.

0points

Andy-Pandy-Panda 3 months ago

There is a whole world outside of the US and I'd implore anyone from there to explore it and escape the 'north korea' style news and education. God help us all if Trumpty Dumpty gets back in power.

0points

Daniel Gómez 3 months ago

These kinds of articles are a joke. "America" vs the World... sorry for not accomodating and cater to your needs, since the rest of the world seems to be your playground and nothing more.

0points

Becca not Becky 3 months ago

All the comments seem to be assuming that these are comparisons to Europe. The world is much bigger than just the US and Europe, and the title is just asking about places people traveled to, without specifying where.

0points

El Dee 3 months ago

Mostly BS from people who have never left their home town..

0points

LilliVB 3 months ago

Really disappointing. I was happy to read something good about the states instead of the usual USA bashing article, but instead I got an article full of c**p. Couldn't the author of the article do a better research and giving us an article with some reliable facts?

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kelly 3 months ago

It's funny how these are observations by OP's and people are ripping them apart in the comments and getting so offended. I don't believe this post was meant to be mean or offensive to anyone outside of the US.

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John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 3 months ago

Welcome to a public platform where people can post opinions. Talk to a mirror if you only want to see people agreeing with you.

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JayWantsACat 3 months ago

So many of the comments here are essentially "my personal experience is different therefore these are invalid."

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Shane P 3 months ago

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Tyranamar Seuss 3 months ago

That was so bad I choked. What American still believes that c**p?

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Momifer 3 months ago

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Layla Layla 3 months ago

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Verena 3 months ago

It would have been enlightning if the OPs had named the country where they experienced the deficiency

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Caro Caro 3 months ago

Yeah, you read it as if the OP has been to ONE country outside the US and thinks it's "the world". There's a vast difference between countries, continents.

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Justin Tyme 3 months ago

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Layla Layla 3 months ago

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Boy-Ahn 3 months ago

Well, this was a steaming pile of çrāp.

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Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 3 months ago

Why do all of these posts about the US turn into "let's hate on Americans"?

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Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 3 months ago

The majority of us are perfectly normal likeable people...

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John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 3 months ago (edited)

Because you call it upon yourself with this kind of America is the greatest-posts. It's not. Much of this c**p stems from ignorant and proud of it-people

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Rafael 3 months ago

Agree that most of you are allright. "Let's mock American redditors" is more adequate perhaps?

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Ervin Conn 3 months ago

As an American I find this entire list embarrasing.

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 3 months ago

Yeah, me too.

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John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 3 months ago

Typical ignorant-american rant

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Julie S 3 months ago

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S. K. 3 months ago

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Thrillion 3 months ago

I sincerely hope you don't believe these generalizations just as the original posts are wrong to generalize.

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Ian Webling 3 months ago

Have any of these OPs actually been out of the US or did they write their pieces based on Fox propaganda. I live in a Third World country and agreed with only two of 42 opinions.

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Mimi M 3 months ago

42 Times BP figured out another way to be passive-aggressive to the USA and Americans in a petty, immature way...

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Guess Undheit 3 months ago

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DrBronxx 3 months ago

A list of people who either think that the rest of the world is still in the Stone Age, or who went to very specific places, and think those places represented "rest of world"

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Marcus Lynch 3 months ago

Some of these things are unfortunately the same things that are wrong with America. Not the water thing though. I like clean water. Alot.

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Drilbur 3 months ago

I feel like everyone here forgets there's more to the world than just America and Eruope. Most of the posts are likely referring to third world countries that don't have the same luxuries.

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Dave Pearson 3 months ago

What a load of claptrap. The worst BP Doom scroll I ever saw. Have any of the OPs ever actually left the US??? I doubt it.

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Andy-Pandy-Panda 3 months ago

There is a whole world outside of the US and I'd implore anyone from there to explore it and escape the 'north korea' style news and education. God help us all if Trumpty Dumpty gets back in power.

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Daniel Gómez 3 months ago

These kinds of articles are a joke. "America" vs the World... sorry for not accomodating and cater to your needs, since the rest of the world seems to be your playground and nothing more.

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Becca not Becky 3 months ago

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El Dee 3 months ago

Mostly BS from people who have never left their home town..

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LilliVB 3 months ago

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kelly 3 months ago

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John Smith (he/him/xy/️) 3 months ago

Welcome to a public platform where people can post opinions. Talk to a mirror if you only want to see people agreeing with you.

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