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THIS! I remember a time that my dad had gotten laid off and my mum was dealing with health issues. They were simply down on their luck and filed for food stamps. Due to their Canadian pension they only qualified for $18 in food stamps a month and made too much to have health insurance, just adding to the health issues.

This! Pay everyone a living wage and do away with tips!

Oh, we Germans kinda do that, too, actually 😅

Everything in American-English too rather than British-English. things that are translated from almost any other language into American-English rather than British-English regardless of the subject matter

We’d call that indoctrination in the UK. I remember speaking with an elderly Italian man who was a child when Mussolini came to power. He told me they were forced to do similar things at school.

And lobby for laws that put more people in jail

Most Americans think they're ridiculous too tbh.

It's so much more than that. It's not that they dont want healthcare, they dont want to pay for SOMEONE ELSE'S healthcare.

Most places use chip-and-pin where they *have* to take the card at the table since you need to enter your PIN. USA credit card banks decided Americans aren't smart enough for chip-and-pin, so we just have chip and an archaic signature.

Yeah, I kinda agree with this one.

This is sad

Add "who is paying their debt while also stopping treatment because they can't continue accruing more debt"

yeah...

i know- you can literally stare someone in the face while they are going to the bathroom

How else can they keep up the illusion that they live in a country worth celebrating?

Different taxes in different states. But yeah.

Work to live, don't live to work.

we get sooo many ads too; they're literally everywhere and most of them are attack ads with questionable information

it's disgusting the amount of money my school spends on sports, and we're not even remotely a sporty school

the meal in the picture is not an American one.

Yeah in my country, if you don't take your minimum of 5 weeks of holiday per year, it will be scheduled for you. Literally your manager will force you to relax :D.

Yeah it is pretty weird. Why not just say 9th, 10th , 11th, and 12 grade? Seems much more simple. I am going to be in high school next year and I am Indian but I live in America. I am used to saying junior, sophomore, etc. but my mom finds it really confusing. This seems so unnecessary.

I'm good with it being a weekday, but it should be a national holiday

This is a bad policy because everyone comes to work sick so they can still take vacation days.

Way too much religion everywhere and about everything.

It’s very annoying

Already noted. Pay everyone a living working wage (NOT $7.50/hr). Do away with tipping.

This, bigtime.

It's a size/density thing. The USA is huge compared to Europe -- Texas alone encompasses half of France, nearly all of Germany, the Czech republic, Austria, Switzerland, and all of Belgium and the Netherlands. And it has about a third of the population of Germany.

Well, we are kind of spread out in many places here. I'm about 35-40 minutes from everything and our public transport system leaves much to be desired.

Ok but a lot of places in the US, the things you need to get to are not always within walking distance. For a lot of people who don't live in a city center, the nearest grocery store is too far away to walk to. So you have to drive.

I have a friend who at age 83 has never learned to drive, because he lived and worked in NYC all his life and never needed to.

It’s geography. Any large country that doesn’t have the population to support a large public transit system has the same issue. It’s a big shock to go to Europe where everything is close to each other

We're a big country, spread out, some folks live 10 -20 miles or more from town.

I mean, some places in the US you can do just fine without a car. Other places have too much sprawl (empty/mostly empty space between towns) and poor public transport plans. Florida is an example of a lot of both. A lot of city area, with smaller towns around the borders, but a lot of empty space due to it being a swamp land state, so it’s a hike to the next town. Add a lack of a state-wide transport system and you end up with too many cars. You can walk some places, bike, or bus, but trains to get between cities are limited. Cities try to make up for local by putting big store every-freaking-where, but that just further spreads things out as new communities are built.

Even worse: It is not normal to walk (or take a bike).

Well, since you probably live in a country that is about the size of one of our states, so what?

Driving is freedom,

Well, if you’re from a European country, it’s just smaller than the US. My husband is British, and the distances from one major city to another in the US blew his mind at first. He’s used to it now, but it took a while for him to get his head around the fact he now lives in a country where driving from one end to the other—-in any direction—-takes days rather than hours, and that public transportation is either limited or isn’t available at all in rural areas.

I love driving.

Are you going to bike from Columbus to Cleveland?

I'm from a very small town that up until 20 only had a one filling station, a post office and a grocery store, literally. The grocery store only had groceries and basic ones at that. So if someone wanted to go to the doctor, get clothes, toys for kids, supplies for a home (like if something breaks), etc all of that stuff was 30 minutes away at least. There's no way someone could walk to some of those things. I mean, I guess they COULD but depending on what reason you were walking, you'd probably die on the way. My grandmother who was born in 1933 could remember people who rode horses from the town to the nearest "big city" (which actually is the capital of my state in the US) and it took 2 days, one way. She also remembered the excitement of when one of her uncles brought his car over to show off. She was a kid, ofc, but a lot of the older family had never seen one in person. My point is it's easy to pass judgment on fat lazy Americans but that's not everyone.

Some people drive everywhere because they want to; my grandma, for example.

You never learned to spell either. Learnt is not a word.

This was some years ago.. but still :) I was staying with friends in Texas for a month. Went for a walk in the evening. Cops stopped me and wanted to know what i was doing and why was I outside just walking. They could not understand that I just wanted some air and exercise. Really weird.

In North America we do not live on top of each other. We are more spread out than in Europe and public transit is not always available.

Comes with the larger territory.

Yes, I mostly use trains or I just walk.

39 and never learnt to drive despite the fact that I have lived in a dozen countries. Never needed to. Don't want to. Don't like cars and car culture.

Until you've been here, you don't realize how big it is. Driving isn't a preference, it's a necessity.

Yea driving is the worst.