@Fil Albuquerque,
Quote:...I wouldn't trade the worst country in Europe for Murika...you can bet your Soul I mean it all heartedly. And there's lots I love and admire bout Murika..just not enough to ever live there...
You're probably going to be sorry you posted this **** where I could see it...
The biggest difference between United States and European countries is that the average American has enough physical space in which to live. The typical American house is 1500 to 2000 ft.². In fact, despite the blathering of the Malthusians, the present human population of the world could fit in Texas without it being overly crowded. Frenchmen and Germans are not stupid people, but the following story is fairly common: a couple of French or German tourists land in New York, rent a car to drive, head out west on the highway (starting at seven or eight in the morning) until, finally, it starts getting dark, and they are totally flummoxed, like "where's, California"??
Americans shop for groceries once a week or once every two weeks because we actually have refrigerators which can hold that much food. Our houses are not taxed by number of rooms or number of closets, so that we don't have the armoires, or upright cabinets which many Europeans keep clothing in.
Once you get away from the East Coast, you find Americans driving at 70 to 80 miles an hour so that even a good European engine like that of the Alfa Romeo has to be above 1600 cc in order to survive here. The Renault Dauphine was probably a serviceable enough little car for France; nonetheless Renault ended up having to make a public apology to the American people for it, and they ultimately ended up abandoning the American market.
Funniest thing of all however, are the people who tell you that it's only the French or only the Italians who know how to cook... That isn't difficult to understand; European countries simply do not have the space for herds of beef cattle like we have in America. Beef to them, apparently, amounts to some poor old cow which can't give milk anymore after 20 years, that is, they're cooking something which we would either bury or make glue out of. The basic reality is that I could walk into the nearest McDonald's or Burger King right now and for five dollars, eat a better meal than anybody in Europe is going to eat today.
Something like Mike Obunga's school lunch program, of course, does not figure into that equation, that's basically a sadistic and evil policy intended to harm children.
