How I See the US After 2 Years in Europe | American Reacts

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[ThorDyrden]

Simple statement: You neither should have to fear going to the doctor or the police when needing help.
If you do - something is severely wrong in your country.

[Mr.Rosebud]

I lived 3 months in USA. I've never been so happy to come home to Scandinavia. My mind became toxic with stress living there. I just walked out in the wild with coffee when I came home. Never being so humble of happiness for being swedish.

[chrissiesbuchcocktail]

Heidi talking totally at ease and saying: I've heard gunshots going off..
A huge number Europeans: I never heard gunshots (except related to military exercise, hunting or sports) my entire life.

[zyzzyvacation]

I've heard it said that Americans live to work, whereas Europeans work to live... 🤔

[Touchpadse]

I think the reasons why people don't retire in Europe are different to the reasons people don't retire in the USA. Here in Europe people who don't retire (in general) don't retire because they like their job. I have a feeling that the main reason people don't retire in the USA is because they can't afford it

Ooh and 10% is a huge amount!

[MarchMeadow]

I worked for a big German telekom company in England for 20 years. I worked 35 hours a week and got 30 days holiday + public holidays + emergency time off. If I was female, I'd get a year off for each child at 75%-ish salary. The US is stuck in the 1930's when it comes to work-life balance.

[Randomdude-e]

Many american dont want to pay taxes because some other people in need can get the threatment they paid tax for😂 in europe we like to help everyone to have a good life. We see it very differently

[Terji]

i think large part of the reason why americans have a hustler go getter mentality is because they literally have to in order to make money when the minimum wages are so poor, in europe most places pay you a wage you can make do with. i always hear about americans working multiple jobs, this concept is absolute lunacy to me, no one in my country does this

[andreash]

Strange comment about Germans in his clip. Foreigners in Germany always praise our great work/life balance in their videos. Many Germans have to work less than 40h/week in their fulltime jobs and for most office workers the weekends starts Friday at noon.

[JokerInk-CustomBuilds]

my 70 yr old Danish bluecollar dad still works 3 days a week. He could have retired 5 yrs ago, but choses to keep working as long as he has fun doing it.

[jimmyryan]

There is a big difference between working for a chain at 70 and half working half socialising in a little cafe, serving your friends in some greek or italian village at 70.

[pauluk]

I used to admire the US when I was a kid, especially New York City and San Francisco, but as I got older and started to open my eyes, I started to see the flaws in the US and how different things are in Europe, for the better.

It probably wasn't always like this, but I feel the US has been going downhill over the last two or so decades, or maybe the cracks were there well before that but the internet started to open our eyes, both in the US and EU as the internet allowed us to do more comparisons and get points of views of people that have travelled and lived in both the EU and US, and honestly, the more I hear of the US, the less I want to travel there, never mind live there.

The US is really losing it's way, and it looks likely it's only going to get worse with how toxic US politics is and how divided the people there are becoming, and don't get me wrong, we have our problems in Europe as well, but compared to the US, I feel we Europeans have it much better than even us Europeans realise, because we Europeans do like to complain about everything lol, it's probably what keeps our governments on their toes, as Europeans seem to be more willing to stand up to our governments then Americans are to them and that probably explains why Europeans have so many qualities of life benefits that Americans can only dream off, we basically fight for them by keeping governments more in check, and it doesn't always work, but it certainly gives the governments a run for its money, whereas in the US, you get a sense that Americans roll over and allow the government and corporations to do as they please and boy do the government and corporations take advantage of that in the US.

[MaoZhu-jq]

In the UK, our pets have better insurance cover than a human in the US. I pay £40 a month for our dog, all I have to pay is the first £75 of any veterinary bills, but there is no upper limit.

[OriginalPuro]

"The food quality is a little better"
A little better?
He's silly, our food is actual food where as food in America is preservatives, steroids and other kinds of ungodly substances injected into it.
Just take bread as an example, bread in the US was made to last for up to 9 weeks where as natural bread (just bread) lasts not so long but it tastes sooo much better.

[lainightwalker]

i feel like in europe, (the nordics at lest) political and on most cases religius beleives arent worn as a badge of honor. or a public core part of their person. i feel like americans do identify as christian and republican or democratic. where in europe (nordic) its much more personal and something u leave at home. to be very public with it is seen as extream and "weird".

[BerishStarr]

A young man in Sweden, saw the American school shootings and thought he could do the same. He dressed up as a mix between a Warhammer Death Korp guardsmen and a Nazi soldier. But this being Sweden, he couldn't get guns. So he ordered a "Viking Sword" online. He then took this to school, where he was met with thoughts that he was a cosplayer. Some girls even took some photos with him before he started his attacks.

His name was Anton Lundin Pettersson and was 21 at the time of the attack. With a sword (and a dagger) he killed 3 people and injured 2. When Police arrived, he charged them with a raised sword forcing the Police to shoot him. He later died at the hospital.

We have more school attacks than this one. 13 attacks in total, first one in 1961 which is also only one with a gun. But none of them have more dead than the story above. And none of the 13 attacks have more deaths than one of the American ones (4 deaths being the lowest in US).

My point of this story is to show what guns can do, and what happens if no guns are available.

[heidiboddum]

Dane here, my mom retired at 62, gowerment paid retirement. My dad is 78 still work, but he works at his Old workplace as a adviser, so just some hours a week, but he still get paid gowerment retiré salary. You get that at a certain age and you are allowed to work a little besides that and still get paid for retirement. So some / alot of people do some hours at work afther retirement just to get xtra cash and still be on Your workplace for the social aspect. ❤️🇩🇰❤️

[frankh]

Most importantly, there is no medical underwriting in any of the public health care systems in Europe. Means, everyone is entitled to get treatment wich is medically required. this is called solidarity through risk sharing, which was the initial idea of insurance. The US system of health care prioritises shareholder value over health of human beings.

[fabianheinrich]

One thing about the food here.i am a german guy who has lived in the US, specificly in the 4 corner states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. mainly in the 1st 2. i lived in the countryside, not a big city, and after around 4 - 6 weeks living there, one day i broke down and was taken to the hospital . i was feeling weak and in general very miserable. to my luck i had a great doctor who had been stationed in germany as a military doc for years and she knew the differences so well, that she pretty much immediatly knew what was wrong with me: she asked me how i normally eat in germany, how i had eaten since i arrived and if i was taken supplements, which i did not. And then she said :" yes most of the food you can buy here has no vitamens or whatever else you need, besides just stuffing u . if you do not take supplements you will not get the minmum u need for your body." i was shocked. my big buddy who was with me, he was shocked to hear that too. we had a conversation with the doc about food, health and possibilities and she was a blessing with all her knowledge and then we left again. from that day on regularly drove 120miles for shopping and payed double or more of what we had before. but we felt so much better. my buddy was round about 270-280 pounds back then and he lost about 40 pounds in a year just by changing his food. and i never had problems again. still btw gained about 35 pounds back then. and yes i played football and trained 5 days a weak but still half of that gain was fat.

[marksmith-pzyx]

Just paused this podcast to say, I'm 63 and I have never heard a gunshot in the UK other than at a clay pigeon shoot and a rifle range.