I wish I was European. I feel like they have a much more fun and authentic time in their 20s.
Traveling around the continent without a care in the world, meeting strangers, making friends, doing cool shit that isn’t on the internet with the lads and ladies. America just seems to have superficialities that Europe does not.
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there is no difference between europe and america
I wish I wasn’t born on Earth.
i was about to say something against that, but then I remembered my erasmus and you're right
true. lived in italy and had the best time. seems like your social life doesn't just stop once you finish uni like here in the UK. always something to do every night, any event you want you can find, drinking culture is not just binge drinking in a dark pub surrounded by boomers, the city parks are nicer, good cycle culture.
but everywhere has its problems.
>erasmus
wot
it’s even worse if you’re in the midwest. usually you go to a college that’s close to home and are friends with the same people ever since high school. people everywhere are either too afraid or too pretentious to push the envelope :(
>>>erasmus
it's a study exchange program for uni and it's extremely based.
I wish I was in LITERALLY any country where I can buy a fucking switch. Seriously Nintendo wth? I have a pc with a gtx 1070ti and a PS4 but can't get a switch because Nintendo does not sell its products in South-Asia and the imported version will have no warranty but it will cost almost double the price.
Tell me about your erasmus, at least give me that.
I did mine in Milan Italy for a year. The EU gave me £4500 or something as a grant. I met a lot of friends, mostly Italians, I learned the language, travelled around Italy, had a good time in general. Once I came back to UK and finished uni I returned to Italy for work.
Cringe
oh boy where to begin
I can safely say it was the best time of my life.
I did mine in Austria. I traveled to Germany, Hungary, Czechia, Croatina, Slovenia. I was alone so I only met new people and made new friends. Some good friends. I probably lived more in 6 months than I did in the past two years. There are so many stories, what do you want to hear about?
That sounds pretty courageous to have done that all by yourself. I’m quite introverted so that would be hard for me.
What are some truly unique experiences you had? Everyone probably has a story where they got hammered and porked a 9/10, but do you have anything special?
Are there any sites, exhibits, museums, etc. that you think are “must see”?
tfw 23 year old community college student and wagecuck from suburban new york, biggest idea of a night out for me since i was born was getting snacks from the gas station for my one-man epic gamer nights
Americans view living in euros as quirky, walking and riding bikes, small houses.
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Games are for children
I fell for the switch meme and sold it, it only has two good games and you can emulate Zelda on your pc
Berlin has an island dedicated to museums.
The most impressive piece I saw was the gates of babylon, which I higly recomend. The absolute madmen brought the whole gate of Babylon to Germany, assembled it and put inside a museum.
I wish I was born american.
>it is good to not be able to drive everywhere
>it is good not having ac in summer
>it is good living in a small house
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The British museum absolutely shits all over any other museum that exists. Berlin might have more stuff overall because its got a dedicated museum for egypt, Rome/Greece/ Renaissance art, etc. but the British museum just has the top level of basically everything.
Also the palatine hill in Rome is amazing. Even though Rome itself is Africa tier.
It doesn't shit on the Louvre, no
mabye, ive been to a lot of museums but never to france
Well it's the largest antiquities and art museum in the world and the building itself is an extensive pîece of art since it used to be a palace
I've been to both British and Louvre and I wouldn't say one is superior to the other (though I prefer the Louvre but I've been there a lot more than the British Museum) but it's definitely a place to be reckoned with
It's a shame some people only think about the Meme Lisa when hearing the Louvre mentionned, you could book a week to Paris and only go to the Louvre everyday while still no see the end of it.
Its not that much better. Especially if you're not that interested in traveling. Europe gives you a lot of opportunities to travel, meet new people and be out going in general.
But if you're not interested in these things you're shunned.
can you normie faggots fuck off from Jow Forums already holy shit. go to reddit, Jow Forumseurope or whatever. fucking go and stay there
Yea and after a year you've gone to all big cities and then what? You no longer want to travel. My friend lives in Cologne and it's a 1 hour train ride to Amsterdam, which seems magical to me, but they don't give a fuck.
I hope i get shot
That’s quite neat, I would love to see that but I don’t know if I’ll ever even make it to germany.
No unforgettable nights for you, though? I’m sure you had some
Can concur. Went to the louvre and the place was so massive it blew my dick in two.
Fuck the faggots that are just there for the Lisa, though. They should rip it out of there and put it somewhere else so the rest of us can enjoy the place in peace.
>hey should rip it out of there and put it somewhere else so the rest of us can enjoy the place in peace
I hadn't even considered it but it sound like a good idea
Paris doesn't lack the museums to welcome it, but it probably brings too much money to the Louvre to move it anywhere
I've visited the place during February and it was fairly free of people, you could waltz right in with no queue whatsoever. Fuck summer tho
I've travelled a lot in Europe and 95% of the cities are: cathedral, river, old town, museum. Over and over and over again across the continent, some cultural variation on this granted of course. In the US I've only properly visited DC, Miami and Chicago, and each one had a totally unique character. Despite the longer history I'm not so sure Europe is better than the US for travel. Yes there are lots of historic quaint towns but they're all the same. The number of must see cities is similar.
For Europe I'd say the must-see cities are: Budapest, Florence, Barcelona, Paris, London, Berlin. All other cities are inferior versions of one of these, although I would still say there are a bunch more worth visiting (Edinburgh, Strasbourg for instance). The vast majority though are totally missable, including most cities in Germany, France and the UK, and any city in Scandinavia. That's not to say they aren't really nice places, they just don't offer much that other places do better.
>I wish I was born in Europe because dude I just want to "have fun" by going out every night getting batshit drunk, travel to see a bunch of historical sights I'll never bother to study the significance of, have a bunch of friends who also enjoy things said priorly but not really for me or my reasoing, get married to a thot, and live hedonistically. Why is it in America I need to work to have stuff I want and that I do not get free shit by virtue of existing!
>there is no difference between europe and america
Did you enjoy second easter day with your family?
>For Europe I'd say the must-see cities are: Budapest, Florence, Barcelona, Paris, London, Berlin
Holy shit lol. Stick to your Island.
>Paris, London, Berlin
I think he's just trying to get the poor American killed
Name one (one!) thing I can see in a city in the Netherlands which some other city somewhere else doesn't do better. Prostitution and cannabis? Cloggs? It's okay I guess but not on anyone's bucket list, sorry.
delete this thread OP, it is too soy-laden for me to handle
Stroopwafels alone are a reason to go there. I really enjoyed my stay in Rotterdam a few years ago.
They're good but Stroopwafels really sounds like a Teutonic deathsquad marching on your town
British tourists come for weed and hookers, partying and festivals.
Asian tourists come for the fortress towns, windmills, flower fields and touristic cultural stuff.
Dutch people go for the boat life, canal side terraces, green and biking.
Not saying a visit isn't enjoyable, or there's no reason to visit, but I really think if you had to prioritise a trip to Europe by cities nothing in the Netherlands would make the list, nice as it is.
>Traveling around the continent without a care in the world, meeting strangers, making friends
I always found it hypocritical when people say this of Europe.
People of Europe are cold and unfriendly towards strangers, yet people have this idea that they aren't?
There is no reason to go to Berlin over something like Vienna or Prague. Or to go to Barcelona when you can go to Seville. Or go to London at all.
Nothing is authethnic map. Culture of mass consumption is rampant everywhere
There's really no reason to limit yourself to a single destination though, is there? If you're in such a hurry that you'd only have time to see a single place, then shouldn't you rather just reconsider whether the whole trip is worth it at all?
>Or go to London at all.
Nice try, but this is just too hilarious to be an effective troll
What is there to see in London again? A clocktower and guys with funny hats?
Pack yourself up and take yourself out
not when you’re young and meeting fellow travelers
If you see all the cities in the list, visits to any other European cities have greatly diminished returns because it will all be something the traveller has seen better. That isn't the same as saying they aren't pleasant destinations themselves, but if the priority of the traveller is novelty then going beyond the list won't give them much.
You can do all the same stuff in america basically. Unless you got money you cant visit other countries so easily i guess. The only thing that is holding you back is your own fear. Come to chicago for a month and stay with me fren, ill make sure you leave with atleast one hard drug addiction, three girls of different race boinked, a facial scar and 10 lbs gained.
The cities you mentioned aren't all that great. Besides, it's ridiculous to pretend our cities have anything in common with foreign cities. The closest thing would be something like Gdańsk in Poland.
I take it you don't travel very much, do you? I find pleasure just traveling from a city to another within the same province already, not to mention important hubs in different nations. There's more to traveling than the galleries they have set up. I mean, you could just skim through some art catalogues and save yourself the effort of ever scheduling an actual visit since they merely provide "diminished returns" anymore anyway. I mean I do get your point, but I just think it's way too pragmatic for this context.
>Y-yo-ou would die for the prosperity and independence of the European Federation would you user?
no offense but how do you afford a switch or a pc with a gtx 1070ti in india?
I travel a shit ton FYI so hold the condescending tone. Maybe more than you or maybe less, but this doesn't need to be a dick waving contest for this discussion. My advice of priority cities is appropriate for a visitor from the US and addresses their concerns over being unable to visit all the places in Europe so easily. I am not saying it is not enjoyable to visit other cities. I've been to seven cities in Germany and France since January and while it was nice the cathedral/old town/river/museum formula is most definitely a repeating pattern and does somewhat diminish the interest. I think considering the OPs concerns this needs to be brought up. I'm certain you've noticed it too.
This is the inner city of my city, Utrecht. Does your city have green canals below street level?
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Chinese tourists have ruined this town irl lol
Yes London has plenty of green canals below street level.
I haven't reached the point where I'd feel it's a repeating pattern yet so I just find it difficult to relate, although I go on trips around mainland Europe on motorbike/car a few times every year (south through Estonia and back through Sweden or vice versa). I guess it's a matter of preference then, though the idea of repetitiveness and diminished returns do feel foreign to me. I mean it's pretty obvious that housing and services for citizen can be arranged in only so many ways, but the layers beyond that are ever so interesting and fascinating to me.
The Netherlands is for living
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This city isn't really special, but it's basically the birth place of the Netherlands. The first city that was liberated from Spain.
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Foreigners don't understand the Netherlands is a water country.
The canal rings of Amsterdam from the air. Amsterdam is actually build on millions of wooden poles. Without them Amsterdam would sink into the ground, unironically.
Amsterdam can also turn into an Island. If you google the waterlinies (waterlines), which is an old defense network of fortresses and unfilled canals which can be filled in times of water.
*times of war
It's also the city of colorful wonky houses and house boats.
Meanwhile European tourists only come for this.
On behalf of America, I'd really like to apologise for that. Whenever people talking about going to Amsterdam for dude weed, shrooms, etc. I cringe so fucking hard.
I know it's not just Americans but I'm sorry foreigners have ruined your city
That type of tourist has gone extinct for almost a decade now. It is only about redlight sex now
Amsterdam has been a shitshow for centuries though.
The hookers were there originally for the sailors that came in.
like 95% of people here don't marry a thot lmao