For those who’ve lived in both Europe and the USA, I would like to hear your take. What do you love about each place, and what drawbacks have you noticed? Whether it’s the Old World charm of Europe or the dynamic lifestyle in the USA, spill the beans. In the end, what was the game-changer that made you pick one over the other and if you could share the decision-making behind your preferred choice.
I am a European asperger and to me it’s hard concentrate on some aspects. Which makes life in US unbrearable. Like :
- seeing prices in malls without VAT. I want to calculate my expenses near to one cent. I would go mad to do rocket science every day I do shopping. I want to know PRECISELY if I’ll pay 30 dollars or euros or 31 or 29. Sometimes I go shopping with 30 euros in my pocket and I want to fit in it. When the cashier tells me it’s 30,31 it’s a heartstroke.
- the same about tips. I don’t want to leave any fucking tip. A tip is to me an extraordinary prividge I give to someone serving me if I think service was really efficient and cool. I prefer to eat in an expensive restaurant and pay no tip than in a poor restaurant paying tips. Besides, I think tip culture is really slavery cautioned by social norms.
- US is to me diehard KKK against cretin woke playgound. Fight me. I don’t need this toxicity - neither on a side, neither on the other. I just want NOT MINDING about such things as race, sex, gender, and shit like this, I want to be free to live my life and respect and love all people forgetting details, concentrating on what and who they are, not the color of their ass or how offended they are.
The most racist discussions I’ve ever seen was in Europe though.