How Do Europe & The United States Compare?

▶ In this video I take a look at a few maps and statistics that allow us to compare The United States with Europe in a number of factors!

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[General.Knowledge]

Which other countries should I compare to each other?

[TheRealMjbk]

The reason people can drive at such a young age in the US is because driving is a necessity in many of those western states. There’s no public transportation in rural South Dakota, so you have drive to do simple things.

[michelleb]

“Sunshine” and “hours of daylight” are not synonymous. Sunny days, or days of sunshine, refers to days when you literally see the sun, as opposed to gray, overcast, or otherwise cloudy/rainy days. Northern Europe appears to have more cloudy/rainy days that the US has on a whole.

[wansper]

For the living at parents house thing I think that has a lot to do with the group that was looked at, 18-34 and 25-34 is a big difference

[bernarrcoletta]

Back in the 70’s, when I lived in Italy, I bought wine at 9. My parents would send me down to the local store to pick up a bottle of wine for them.

[han]

8:00 those maps are measuring two different things. the US’ is measuring % of 18-34 year olds living at home while Europe’s is measuring 25-34 year olds.
that’s why america looks so much higher than western europe, it’s taking into account the massive amount of young people who stay at home from 18-25

[Maurdm]

I think you should have focused more on either Europe as a continent or the E.U because the video flips between talking about the E.U and Europe making it a bit confusing

[sillyjellyfish]

About young people living with parents in Slovakia - it's very much cultural.
Firstly, renting isn't really a thing around here and only people like workers or groups of students in universities rent, mostly in big cities. Those who do, while technically living out of home, are still registered on their parent's adress until they buy something of their own. This may take a while since banks only rent to people with long term job contracts which usually happens after 3-5 years after the person starts working.
However, the majority of young people lives with their parents at least until they have their own children, at which point the old place may be a little cramped so they move out. There is also the thing with many of our houses build with the intention of being multigenerational, that is housing 2 or more nuclear families at the same time. People use this as an insurance that a) there are always grandparents looking after grandkids and b) once grandparents are old, there is at least 1 child (now probably middle aged) to take care of them. This is especially common in rural areas and we have more than half of all people living in villages so...

[Gadolinium]

Many climate factors. One example I want to point out is humidity. You could see that the Southwest USA has a lot of sunlight. Even though California is coastal, the air in that area as a whole is very dry, meaning that there is likely less average cloud cover. Wet forests and water from lakes fill the northeast, giving them more frequent cloud coverage

[carlomontecarlo]

In Italy we tend to live with our parents for longer, but the numbers may be lower than suggested. If you go to university in a different city, you won't change your residential address because families benefit from fiscal advantages (university fees are deductible and some universities will lower the amount your fees, depending on the number of people living in your family unit). So you're *domiciled* somewhere, but stats only record your residential address for fiscal purposes. In addition to that, we tend to own our properties. Rents are high in some cities (Rome, Milan, Venice, Bologna and Florence) but quite low in other cities like Turin and Trieste, so that also plays a factor. That being said, the main problem in Italy is youth unemployment & the high number of NEETS. But again, this varies from region to region. Southern Italy has very high unemployment rates (Sicily 17, 8% in Q4 2020, Campania 17, 2% and Calabria 16, 5%), so people are less likely to move out if they have no money. In the North it's a bit different: unemployment in Lombardy (where 1/6 of the Italian population lives) stood at 5, 3% in Q4 2020. The lowest unemployment rates were recorded in the North East of Italy: in the Trento province (4, 3%) and Veneto (4, 7%) respectively.

[janiseikkula]

When you compared armies you forgot that Finnish army is about 280k and with reserve 900k.

[teoefthimiou]

I can say as a Greek that the reason for the % of people living *at home* is in fact mostly cultural and less economic (which still play's a role but not a huge one) . Families here are much closer together than you might think .

[davidverkmann]

Hours of sunlight/ year majorly depends on the amount of rain, sincd rainclouds cover the sun. This is why the oceanic regions of europe such as northern france england and the netherlanda have a lower amount of sunlight

[dameanebulia]

Warm greetings and much love from France to all my European brothers and sisters and all our US American friends ! ❣️

[BucketEarthSociety]

Americans: You can Drink at 21
7 year old me in czechia: How About I Do Anyway?

[lubusbtch]

An interesting fact to note, The travel distance between Paris and Moscow, is shorter then the travel distance between Chicago and L.A.

[ashutosh_acab]

Suggestions for Part two
1. No. of National parks.
2. Avg. Size of a house.
3. Percentage of land dedicated for monuments.
4. No. Of ports/air ports.
5. Comparison of water ways?

[TheChrisSimpson]

Hours of sun is a combination of latitude, average weather, elevation, and mountains. Consider that a village in a valley that runs north to south between two tall mountains east and west of it will receive less sunlight than standing at the peak of either due to mountains blocking it. Even if the mountains weren't blocking the valley (i.e. the valley was running east to west), the total daily sunlight for the valley will be lower than at the peaks. You can see 2 sunsets at the Burj Khalifa by watching sunset at the base and then taking the elevator to the top.
Calculating sunrise/sunset times is actually super complicated because of that... Simply changing altitude will change it (My sunrise/sunset is different in my 4th floor apartment than my 1st floor neighbors below me), so when you see times you're usually seeing an average based on a median elevation with no obstructions. Maps like that were most likely made in a different manner, by actually collecting data at physical locations and averaging it (which would help account for the weather variable as well as the elevation/obstruction variables)

[nicolasschoovaerts]

1€ = $1.07 … not $1.7
And sunlight hours are not really linked to latitude, but to climate (cloud cover or not, fog…).
Moreover, even the number of daylight hours (moment between sunrise and sunset) over a full year is roughly the same everywhere. On the equator, the length of the day will be almost identical (and about 12h) year round. The further away from the equator, the bigger the day length variation between summer and winter. But it averages out.

[TheRealRealMClovin]

The age restriction thing of driving, consent, alchohol and other stuff in the US has always been weird and mind boggling thing to me XD