World travel is a must! We must all learn about other cultures and places and people. Seeing the world is an awe inspiring experience... but living in a foreign place is a whole other story. Europe is beautiful but it can be tricky to navigate. Every place has a drawback to live in and that's just the truth.
Redditor u/Born_Chucker wanted to know why Europe might not be the greatest place on Earth by asking.... Whats the worst part about living in Europe ?
Perspectives....
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It's cold and expensive. At least northern Europe.
Jauxerous
It's too hot and necessarily cheap because we can't afford anything more expensive. In fact we can't afford it now, even though we still work 40+hour weeks and get paid in beans. At least in the South.
Perspectives, my man... (or my lady).
idistaken
Viva Italia!!
I studied abroad in Italy a few years ago, while I loved it there I thought the lifestyle was a little bit inconvenient. Stores never follow a proper schedule (they open/close whenever), (I know this is a really dumb thing to complain about) but I really missed having a dryer, it was pretty hard to find wifi in public places, I also didn't like that nothing was open late or 24 hours.
halfpintlc
Malaga....
The almost religious culture of English people ruining some of the most amazing places like Ibiza is beautiful but there are clubs and English bars in every corner, I lived in Malaga for 6 years and nearly every thing is catered towards the English, not saying all the English do this but it's mostly people in their early 20s and late 30s on hen and stag parties.
oisin-reynolds
Too Much Time.
Having friends from the US, With big time-Zone differences.
FemaleSecuritron
So annoying. Wait 4hrs for them to wake up and reply to your text.
ChaChaMull
Damn Netflix.
I'm pretty happy here, so the only thing I can think of is that netflix has much more series and movies in the US. I used vpn before they blocked it and omg US netflix is so much better.
fantsukissa
Calculations....
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When people in America say things cost X amount of $ i have to google how many £ that is.
YT_Mr-J
But on the other hand, of you see something being sold for X amount of €, that's also what you'll end up paying. Not some completely unrelated higher amount.
Noughmad
Empty Cups.
Unfree Refills.
Stev18FTW
Burn the darn place to the ground!
WhiskeyDickens
In France there's a law that forbids free refills in restaurants to prevent obesity and diabetes in people, especially kids.
Maxime_____
In Germany.....
In Germany - people don't stand up against assholes in public. Everybody just either nope out, or plain dumb pretend they don't see anything - which to me is often worse.
One time on the Berlin U-Bahn - I told a junky who was openly harassing a woman to run right off, and he pulled an exacto knife as a response. Never in my life I saw a train cart getting so empty so fast, the woman included.
They prefer to snitch after the fact than actually doing anything about it when it happens.
Sinusidal
Just Minors....
I'm finding that I find it very difficult to answer this question. I'm pretty happy living in Europe. Most of my complaints are mere minor annoyances. Maybe an inflexible bureaucracy would perhaps be my answer.
mejok
Bureaucracy wouldn't be bureaucracy without inconvenience.
M-Rich
Western Culture....
US based artists are unreachable.
So much of western culture comes from the US, but aside from the most famous ones that you can't approach for entirely different reasons, you'll never meet some of your favorite comedians/writers and other types of artists as an european.
WirinelDuSaule
Are you Open?
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The working hours for most shops are very inconvenient. By the time you have finished work, they are all closed. I wonder how they still keep in business.
Lupus_Noir
Dominion.
Multiplayer servers are just groups of people who don't speak the same language.
untakenu
Got a game of For Honor last night, a trend on this game is to reproduce your flag on your profile's emblem. It's not always the case sometime your emblem just represents something that don't mean anything but just look good, you really do whatever you want.
A game of "Dominion" is a 4v4.
So you ended up with an Italian, a German, a French (me) and a Belgian fighting two Scottmen, a Swiss and a Spanish guy.
Looks like the beginning of a joke I know.
Abovearth31
Castles in the Sky...
My castle sometimes gets drafty.
shaokim
Just burn some peasants and justify yourself accusing them of witchery. It works for me.
Bored_npc
The Wild.
It is not that bad or a flaw actually, but in western Europe I personally miss big wild areas inhabited. Population is very concentrated so wild inhabited areas are very small.
USA, Canada, South América countries, China, Russia, Central Asia, Australia have that per example.
8HcT
I Love the Danes....
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My language... Danish.
pigfoodisgood
Danish is...weird to me as a Norwegian. Your written language are so easy to read, but for the life of me, I really have to struggle to understand when you talk. Swedes have a greater difference in written language, but are so much easier to understand verbally.
Lee1138
The Pooper...
You have to pay to use a public pooper.
Iced-G
Yes!!! I'm from the US and have been to a few countries in Europe. That was the most inconvenient thing...worst memory of it was waiting in a 15 minute line to use the bathroom and some lady comes and takes my stall right after I paid for it. Somebody's lucky they didn't get punched that day.
cjs293
The Bureaucracy....
Depending on exactly where you live, the bureaucracy associated with daily life can be a source of incredible frustration.
irishamerican
My SO spent a year in Italy and the bureaucracy there is just... wow. I thought we had it bad in Canada.
shabadabadabada
You got to have Friends!
When you get used to friendliness of Americans, Europeans as a rule strike you as standoffish.
I was brought up in Europe so I understand this is not hostility, but my American husband is always unpleasantly surprised not everybody responds enthusiastically to his "HI HOW ARE YOU!"
fantazja1
(Switzerland here)
(Switzerland here) Every grocery store closing before I leave work for the day. That, the language barrier, relatively tame nightlife and high cost of any form of transportation all make life a little dull or frustrating from time to time.
Oh, and every time a Swiss woman hits the age of 55, they join a secret cult intent on controlling the use of every washing machine in every apartment building throughout the country so that the gainfully employed struggle and suffer to do their basic cleaning needs.
qb89dragon
I can't definitively say I've come face to face with the spirits. But I have had some unsettling feelings in the dark. Shadows are just shadows sometimes, but who can be sure.
I hear it...
Nbc Wings GIF by HULUGiphy"I was helping my dad clean my grandma's house after she passed and I went in and was trying to find a song in my phone and before I could I heard a cough plain as day come from down the hallway where her room was. She died of lung and throat cancer it was pretty crazy."
Running Past...
"When I was 5 I remember getting home from my grandpa's birthday party. For context my mom was pregnant with my brother at the time, so my parents had already bought his crib. I woke up in the middle of the night to find a women in a white dress and long black hair standing over my brother's crib. I managed to wake up my dad so he could take me to the bathroom. When I got back it was still there. It was only until morning when it disappeared. Every now and then I see a glance of what I assume is that thing running past the backyard."
The Cat
"My best friend and his wife had moved to a new apartment. I came over to visit a few times, and each time I'd see the motion of a cat in my peripheral vision. Not the image of a cat, but a sense of how a cat moves. Anyway, one day I finally cracked some joke about the ghost cat in the place and his wife was instantly saying "See! See! I told you we had a ghost cat!"
"excuse me"
"I worked graveyard shift in a dementia ward for 4 years and it was anything but quiet. I was working with a nurse one night when we both heard a resident say "excuse me." We looked around and no-one was there. I checked on the resident in question and she was fast asleep in her own room. Many of us also experienced someone whistling in the ward late at night and one nurse even managed to catch a video of it happening. It was unnerving to say the least."
Clueless
Skeleton GIFGiphy"I once saw someone short walk by me in my house. They walked into the laundry room which only has one way in. I walked into it behind them and they where gone. I thought it was my little brother but I went to his room and he was asleep. I still have no clue what that was."
- ImBolio
Now was everyone here positive they were sober? Just asking. Those are certainly spooky moments. I'd like some video footage please. Continue...
Reflections
ghost library GIFGiphy"I was up at 3am when I was maybe 7 or 8. I looked out the window and saw a woman in a white dress run across my yard. I could see through her. She was transparent like the reflections on the window."
"you alright?"
"So, my work place is haunted. I was having a really crap day, and as a cleaner, it's normal that me and my co worker will be the only ones left at night. So I was standing on the second floor, leaning on the banister for the stair case, when I heard this male voice say in my ear "you alright?" Clear as day. I turned around so fast and nobody was there and it scared the hell out of me."
- Rex-the-
Watching Me
"I remember as a young kid I usually use to sit in my bed and watch tv with my room door open while the adjacent guest bedroom next to mine would always have the door shut. I always remember seeing that door fully open and close by itself multiple times a day very slowly and gently. Never really bothered me much now that I think about it… but there were other creepier experiences I had in the same house that made me feel uncomfortable like I was being watched."
Betsy
"I went to the Betsy Ross House as a really little kid in the early 90s. Normal house but I was confused why the tour guide never talked about the woman on the chair crying at the edge of the bed in Betsy Ross's bedroom. So I asked about it. No one else saw the woman at the edge of the bed. I figured it was just a wax museum since there was a wax statue of a man in uniform rolling bullets in the basement."
"Years later, I was looking at haunted Philadelphia tours to go on with a friend and the Betsy Ross House was on it. I was like "woah! I was there!" and looked into it some more. Turns out there is a woman at the end of the bed crying and a uniformed man in the basement that people have reported seeing. There is no way that 8 year old me would have known about either of these things."
hello kitty...
hello kitty lol GIF by Animation Domination High-DefGiphy"I had this hello kitty Balloon In my bed room, it had a string and weight on it. So it was late, I had the lights on just Sitting on my bed. The Balloon turns, faces my door, slowly floats into my hallway and turns and floats into my sister's room. To this day I am scared of balloons."
They are among us and they like Hello Kitty. I'm probably rattling the paranormal cages and they'll come for me next, but I'm ready. I feel like this thread has prepared me.
Boo!
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