> This comment is a festival of imprecise stereotypes.
I might be overgeneralizing, but I won't accept the "festival of imprecise stereotypes" claim. This is what I got with working with too many people from too many countries in Europe for close to two decades. I travel at least twice a year, and basically live with them for short periods of time. So this is not by reading some questionable social media sites and being an armchair sociologist.
> Gun laws vary widely across Europe...
Yet USA has 3x armed homicide cases in developed world when compared with its closest follower, and USA is the "leader" of the pack. 24 something vs. 8 something.
> as does public safety
Every city has safe and unsafe areas. Even your apartment has unsafe areas.
> as does the overall lavel of personal happiness, as does the functionality of public transport systems.
Of course, but even if DB has a two hour delay because of a hold-up at Swiss border, I can board a Eurostar and casually can see another country for peanuts money. Happiness changes due to plethora of reasons. Like Swedes' daylight duration problems in winter, or economic downturn in elsewhere.
> And the quality of public services doesn't really track the size of the government even in Europe that well. Corruption eats a lot of the common pie.
Sadly corruption in Europe is on the rise when compared to the last decade. I can see that. However, at least many countries have a working social security systems, NHS not being one of them, sadly.
I might be overgeneralizing, but I won't accept the "festival of imprecise stereotypes" claim. This is what I got with working with too many people from too many countries in Europe for close to two decades. I travel at least twice a year, and basically live with them for short periods of time. So this is not by reading some questionable social media sites and being an armchair sociologist.
> Gun laws vary widely across Europe...
Yet USA has 3x armed homicide cases in developed world when compared with its closest follower, and USA is the "leader" of the pack. 24 something vs. 8 something.
> as does public safety
Every city has safe and unsafe areas. Even your apartment has unsafe areas.
> as does the overall lavel of personal happiness, as does the functionality of public transport systems.
Of course, but even if DB has a two hour delay because of a hold-up at Swiss border, I can board a Eurostar and casually can see another country for peanuts money. Happiness changes due to plethora of reasons. Like Swedes' daylight duration problems in winter, or economic downturn in elsewhere.
> And the quality of public services doesn't really track the size of the government even in Europe that well. Corruption eats a lot of the common pie.
Sadly corruption in Europe is on the rise when compared to the last decade. I can see that. However, at least many countries have a working social security systems, NHS not being one of them, sadly.