"Portion sizes, vehicle sizes, road sizes, house sizes."
"French married to a US citizen here. The one thing that surprised me most, apart from the portion sizes and the overload of sugar eveywhere that everyone mentions, is the convenience culture.As long as you have a car, you can go buy anything and everything at virtually any time of day or night. And, oh, the amount of stuff you can have delivered at your place in less than an hour ! The workers do not seem to enjoy such a huge quality of life. Who would, if they had to work the 2am-12pm shift in a fast food place for minimum wage ?
On top of that, one other thing is how people are proud of working themselves to death, picking up all the overtime they can and not sleeping. Some of them have to to make ends meet, but most I know do not need the overtime and could use it to catch up on sleep, but don't. Instead, they drink coffee... It seems like companies managed to make the people link personal worth and pride to how much one works. Not the quality of it or the enjoyment of the job, but simply the amount of hours."
It's arse in every English speaking country .... except the USA.
Cheers to all you visiting foreign servicemen - but keep in mind that the free beer you might get now was not always how you would be greeted here. Things have changed for the better.
Yes your points are true, but hippies spitting on soldiers and current soldier-hero worship is shorthand for larger societal points that are equally as valid. Post-Vietnam, soldiers were devalued, dismissed, and denigrated in myriad ways in the U.S. for decades, and soldiers now are treated as symbols of the devotion and love of country that a non-serving public only wishes they could embody. The generalized respect currently shown to soldiers and first responders is, I think, a sign that the public knows deep down how much those people are actually worth when they are really needed. Finally, some respect.
Revisionist thinking is fun, isn't it, little Antifa drone?
Prove it.
Indeed. I saw plenty of "street people" begging in Amsterdam and Prague (I made a fool of myself trying to help a desperate old woman in Prague by waving down a policeman to get her help - turned out that was her job). Not the socialist utopia I thought it was. Apparently there are just as many desperate, under-served people on the streets of European cities as there are in the U.S.
In Europe, the fake beggars are Gypsies. We have them in the US too, but they have more.
"The sheer size of the place is amazing. Each state is its own little country. I lived there for 7 years and visited some different places, and each time I crossed a state line it was like crossing a border in Europe — everything was different again."
Yep. But consider that some states are larger than some European countries.
Also, regarding the sugar content of food mentioned in many posts... Yeah, way too much sugar for this American in a lot of food products.
Almost as dumb as your comment
I live in Missouri, it's very much a real thing here. Odd how the overly christian areas have such blatant adds for something they consider a "sin".
It's arse in every English speaking country .... except the USA.
Cheers to all you visiting foreign servicemen - but keep in mind that the free beer you might get now was not always how you would be greeted here. Things have changed for the better.
Yes your points are true, but hippies spitting on soldiers and current soldier-hero worship is shorthand for larger societal points that are equally as valid. Post-Vietnam, soldiers were devalued, dismissed, and denigrated in myriad ways in the U.S. for decades, and soldiers now are treated as symbols of the devotion and love of country that a non-serving public only wishes they could embody. The generalized respect currently shown to soldiers and first responders is, I think, a sign that the public knows deep down how much those people are actually worth when they are really needed. Finally, some respect.
Revisionist thinking is fun, isn't it, little Antifa drone?
Prove it.
Indeed. I saw plenty of "street people" begging in Amsterdam and Prague (I made a fool of myself trying to help a desperate old woman in Prague by waving down a policeman to get her help - turned out that was her job). Not the socialist utopia I thought it was. Apparently there are just as many desperate, under-served people on the streets of European cities as there are in the U.S.
In Europe, the fake beggars are Gypsies. We have them in the US too, but they have more.
"The sheer size of the place is amazing. Each state is its own little country. I lived there for 7 years and visited some different places, and each time I crossed a state line it was like crossing a border in Europe — everything was different again."
Yep. But consider that some states are larger than some European countries.
Also, regarding the sugar content of food mentioned in many posts... Yeah, way too much sugar for this American in a lot of food products.
Almost as dumb as your comment
I live in Missouri, it's very much a real thing here. Odd how the overly christian areas have such blatant adds for something they consider a "sin".