I wish you guys could just see the America I see every day

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Random thoughts about life in the USA

>most physical objects are cheap
There are heaps of used everything everywhere. Consumer culture over the last 73 years has left generations of every kind of product you can imagine. You can fill your house with it for less than a thousand dollars if you set your mind to it. Tables, chairs, couches, televisions, beds: everything.

Cars are the same story. Car lots, new and used, are absolutely everywhere. Used car lots are filled with more cars than they will ever sell. Junkyards are everywhere too.

You could be in the lowest income bracket and still have a decent car, especially if you are looking at something 20+ years old.

But that wouldn't mean much. Your life would still suck in some ways that would be a further story than this post.

Anyway, people still keep buying new things. Millennials not as much as those older or younger.

Take notes >

In small towns with little to do the teens will gather together in front of grocery stores to chat, and occasionally cruise on a pointless loop of the area. Other teens will ridicule this behavior.

On weekends boomers will get together and do informal car shows, parking their classic cars around the lot of a local business like a bank. This is mildly entertaining to walk through now and then.

Actual parking is expected to be mostly orderly. Stay between the lines and if you park illegally you should not be surprised to find a ticket on your windshield. Other lot users will not hesitate to report you.

Depending on where you live in Canada you probably already know a lot of what I could tell you. Just with a lot more people who look sort of like this.

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Interesting. Teens here hang out by the train station and it so happens that we have an ameriboo subculture who likes to do car shows in small towns.

America is big and boring. Things take too long to get to.

Lots of people live in crummy apartments with beige walls and cheap couches that are filled with generations of electronic gadgets scattered everywhere. They eat cheap food they find on sale and consider going to Taco Bell to be a treat.

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The DOGS

the fucking dogs

Nobody talks about how much more popular dogs have gotten in the last 15 years

Every fucking Millennial couple has two or three yapping dogs that dominate the conversation when you visit with them.

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Love dogs
Talking about them gets a little old

That's the thing. Going to see old friends takes hours of driving and then you get there and the dogs dominate the attention the whole time.

Dogs are the reason I hate christmas, because there are always 2-3 at the family gatherings. They get in the way of everything, don't smell all that nice either. Would rather just stay home

Hi, I really like this kind of threads. Like, local people describing their surroundings. I may hijack it and describe my surroundings too if I can. It may give you a more realistic understanding of my country too, if you're interested.

Honestly it means they turned boring

do it

more

>houses suck
Even though there is plenty of land and materials are cheap, many people live in trailers or houses made of shoddy materials.
They don't care. They think this is just the way it is. Normal to have a floor that is falling through in ten years of use from a brand new mobile home.

In meth country there are getting to be a lot more people living in informal "houses" that are actually manufactured garages or utility sheds. With some work these are not actually that bad and it does beat being homeless or buying a trailer that will probably be repossessed in two or less years.

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Why would they not care.

Surrounded by people who don't care to the point that they think it's normal

What would it take for one of these chumps to actually build a proper house? I feel like someone has to take the initiative and then have a visit from a tornado or something. Not unlike that story with the 3 Danes and the wolf.

>What would it take for one of these chumps to actually build a proper house?
A complete change in lifestyle and mindset

If I have food that costs more than one dollar, my family always shamed me as if I was spoiled. Because of introversion, and having never dealt with purchases or finances, I was forced to take their word that I was spoiled for eating food worth more than a dollar. They drilled this mentality into me until I was willing to settle for less than any of themselves. They also seemed to believe that McDonald's and Burger King are the only restaurants in the country, and that has been my 'take out'. Not that I hate McDonald's or Burger King, but I mean it when I say only. Everything else is more than a dollar's worth of gas away, whatever that is. Probably fifty cents or a quarter in reality.

Does anyone have a similar experience?

I may do it tomorrow. It's pretty late here lol

C ya

I didn't but I've seen families like that. Most of them alcoholics that don't want to spend any money on their kids food so they can buy more liquor.

How is it then?

Want a 50" HDTV? Ten of them for free on craigslist right now.

Want to get the right treatment for your back injury? We'll have to see if your insurance will cover that. Also: your employer will probably fire you if you take more than 3 days off.

but this is exactly how we see USA

what's some of the best places to visit in the states?
unironically. i've never been outside of europe and someday i'd like to go. the obvious choices would be california or NY, but it seems like they get a lot of shit here.
on one hand, i'd rather not spend a vacation on a farm in a desert somewhere, but on the other hand, a big city like NY seems too crowded and non-personal, if that makes sense.
i'm not sure how i feel about southern states either.
please enlighten me, if you feel like you might have some insight.

argentina would probably be my first choice were i to visit latin america. so i'm interested in a description too. if you decide to come back.

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Don't go to Los Angeles or NYC. You can get the same things and more with other cities in the USA. Go to any nearby city of those two.

Better to find some uniquely American event you want to attend and plan around that.

Don't underestimate how hot it can get in the southern states in the summer. June in Florida or Georgia can be miserable during the middle hours of the day and it can make an outing in the sun not very fun.

You're honestly better off asking other euros who have been to America
That being said, come to New England in the Fall

>You're honestly better off asking other euros who have been to America
Sadly, this is true.

They just gonna keep defending wood houses.

There's an island with horse carriages instead of vehicles. Only emergency vehicles are allowed. It's in a busy waterway. Thomas Edison used to go there and stuff. There are people of Scandinavian and Finnish descent all around it. A bunch of natural arches like Malta too. And more.

What? I ain't spoonfeeding. Find out what it is yourself.

here too :)

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You would've been hanged if Washington was around.

thanks.
i don't know any uniquely american events besides thanksgiving and black friday, though. atlanta has been on my mind, but yeah, not sure how much i'd enjoy the weather.
what's your favorite city? i'm mostly concerned about the people and the sights. what about somewhere in washington, or montana?

like boston? or somewhere a bit more inland?
sadly i don't know many euros that have been to the US, so if you don't mind i'll ask you the same as above.
what's your favorite city?

looks really nice, but also like a darn hassle. i'll look a bit into it, thanks.
my google skills are subpar

I used to participate in a lot of car meets and cruises, it was a lot of fun. Some meets were filled with high schoolers with shitboxes and heavily modified cars, often leading to a wreck or a few arrests. Some meets were /boomer/ and all they did was cruise their cars downtown like a pack of angry old dogs, sometimes doing burnouts in their old muscle cars. Then there's motorcycle fags, oh boy.

show me the dance of your people

god damn, I miss Verona
I went there in July with my ex who was a cutie, we sat in at exact square, had some spritz at the end of the day after visiting Juliette's house

>like boston? or somewhere a bit more inland?
Vermont for mountains, Rhode Island (my home) for coast. Boston's cool, not really to much to see there in my opinion but worth a visit if you can find an event there.

Nobody really thinks America is first world.

Exactly what I was thinking
God, that album hits me so fucking hard. I listened to it on a train in Europe and have been saving up for grad school in Europe ever since

>Georgia is on his mind
In all seriousness, avoid Atlanta like the plague. Georgia is great but only in the smaller cities and towns. The landscape is far more varied than you'd expect, and it's absolutely GORGEOUS to drive through, especially in late summer/early fall, but holy shit avoid the majority black cities unless you want a vision of Judge Dredd.
>TN is also fantastically comfy and I say this as a northerner

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It's all fucking ugly, unless you live in a cutesy small town or downtown near all the skyscrapers and happen to like them. Even the small towns will be choked by strip malls. There'll be a cute little downtown to walk around in for half an hour and then you'll have sprawling strip malls and copy-paste houses for 95% of the rest of the area of the town.
If you drove from my hometown to the city without taking the highway, you would literally drive 2 full hours through crappy strip malls, no hills, barely any trees, and cookiecutter subdivisions.
I hate that everyone thinks I'm some kind of stuck-up prick because I want to live somewhere without strip malls and where I won't get homeless black crackheads screaming at me, calling me racist, because I ignore them when they ask for money.
I just am so fucking tired of seeing the same fucking signs, plywood, asphalt, and concrete copy-pasted every 2 miles.

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>I hate that everyone thinks I'm some kind of stuck-up prick because I want to live somewhere without strip malls
Get out while you can. Fuck those people. Living in a shithole puts such a toll on you

appreciated man. rhode island's on the list

lol, got it. thanks.
>TN
like, savannah? can't remember if i was told whether it was beautiful or whether it smelled like piss. actually that might be paris i'm thinking of.
i might not have that many travelling options while i'm there, so if you had to, could you choose just one city? in georgia or tennessee

You are right to be weary of the south, don’t come here during summer or close to summer.
America sadly doesn’t have many special holidays or events that aren’t from our respective old cultures. Families hold onto their heritage for as many generations as they can, but once that ends they are left with American commercial trash. Thanksgiving is trash talked by liberals more ever year and Black Friday starts earlier every year (this time it started 6pm on Thursday where I live). Christmas starts earlier than ever before just to sell more while the traditions of the event are ignored. Many Americans that are not first generation immigrants are apathetic towards or downright hostile towards religion. Immigrant brought holidays are used for excuses to drink, such as St. Patricks Day, Cinco de Mayo and Oktober Fest, by people who have no idea what the day is meant to celebrate. It’s a sad place to be, watching cultures die.

It really helps if you live somewhere with nice nature.

Many immigrants are probably hostile to religion. There are Iranians who left Iran for secular rule.

>rhode island's on the list
Happy to hear it friend. Best of luck in your travels

>98074817
What sucks is my dad had a job for a couple of years in Europe, so we lived there a bit. Coming back to the suburbs is just soul-crushing after that. Politics and everything else are obviously up for debate, but it's just fucking beautiful there. You start to notice all the buildings you like back home are cheap knockoffs of shit in Europe, for example.
Well the problem is is that here in America, it's not super easy to find a good job in a city that isn't really big. And really big cities have huge sprawls. So to live at the edge of the sprawl would mean a super long fucking commute.
I remember in Ireland, the city of Cork specifically, you'd have a nice kinda bigish city center and then if you drive 10-15 minutes you're out in the fields with sheep and you can go to castles and shit. It's kinda like if you took an American city and only kept the financial/business district. It's a lot more compact.

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In fair Verona where we lay our scene...

I highly recommend New England

Agree

The vast bulk of America is an utterly bleak, late-capitalist wasteland where nothing interesting happens whatsoever.

Stick to the major cities and areas of natural beauty.

Just out of curiosity, did you have to read that in English class?

I always thought US has not any disadvantages aside crime

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traffic, public transportation, and people lie all the time like its no big deal, you cant really trust anyone, at least in my state. and no, i'm not poor

The grass is always greener, but I suppose the soviet legacy in Poland is pretty grim and depressing, even compared to flyovers here
One of my friends moved here from Poland with his family when he was like 10 and he loves it here, says it's way better than Poland

traffic in every country is a problem i think, public transport it depends on the city, about people i always though americans are generally pretty friendly towards other people even if it is not honestly but it least it's cool
I believe you i really want to see your country
sorry for my english

>People like all the time like its no big deal
I've never experienced any major lies from others. Most of the time it's just social shit like made up reasons for ditching or missing work.
One thing I will always like about the American culture is how everyone is very easy going and friendly. I'm always surprised when I hear that people in other countries don't just have nice chats with strangers from time to time.

>One thing I will always like about the American culture is how everyone is very easy going and friendly. I'm always surprised when I hear that people in other countries don't just have nice chats with strangers from time to time.

I was bullied often and scarred by it, now I'm scared of my fellow Americans as well as all the other peoples of the globe.

As well as of, I mean.

Fuck off and die, normalfag.
People like you deserve nothing but suffering.
You are an awful human being.