Europe feels a lot better than North America for me.

[milkandcooki]

I'm American, but most Americans are idiots. They bitch and moan about immigrants, while our country was founded by immigrants.

[Xystus234]

"America" isn't just one place. Take a look at this:
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Ninenations.PNG[/IMG]

[LIST]
[*][B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England"]New England[/URL][/B] — an expanded version including not only [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine"]Maine[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire"]New Hampshire[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont"]Vermont[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island"]Rhode Island[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts"]Massachusetts[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut"]Connecticut[/URL] (although omitting the Connecticut suburbs of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City"]New York City[/URL]), but also the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Canada"]Canadian Atlantic[/URL] provinces of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick"]New Brunswick[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia"]Nova Scotia[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island"]Prince Edward Island[/URL], and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_and_Labrador"]Newfoundland and Labrador[/URL]. Capital: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston"]Boston[/URL].
[*][B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundry_%28United_States_region%29"]The Foundry[/URL][/B] — the by-then-declining industrial areas of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeastern_United_States"]northeastern United States[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_region"]Great Lakes region[/URL] stretching from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City"]New York City[/URL] to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee"]Milwaukee[/URL], and including [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago"]Chicago[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia"]Philadelphia[/URL] as well as industrial [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ontario"]Southern Ontario[/URL] centering on [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto"]Toronto[/URL]. Capital: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit"]Detroit[/URL].
[*][B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie"]Dixie[/URL][/B] — the former [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America"]Confederate States of America[/URL] (today the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern_United_States"]southeastern United States[/URL]) centered on [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta"]Atlanta[/URL], and including most of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Texas"]eastern Texas[/URL]. Garreau's "Dixie" also includes [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky"]Kentucky[/URL] (which had [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_in_the_American_Civil_War"]both Federal and Confederate governments[/URL]); southern portions of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri"]Missouri[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois"]Illinois[/URL], and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana"]Indiana[/URL]; and the "[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Dixie_%28Oklahoma%29"]Little Dixie[/URL]" region of southeastern [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma"]Oklahoma[/URL]. Finally, the region also includes most of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida"]Florida[/URL], as far south as the cities of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Myers,_Florida"]Fort Myers[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples,_Florida"]Naples[/URL]. Capital: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta"]Atlanta[/URL].
[*][B]The [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadbasket"]Breadbasket[/URL][/B] — most of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains"]Great Plains[/URL] states and part of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_province"]Prairie provinces[/URL]: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa"]Iowa[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas"]Kansas[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota"]Minnesota[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska"]Nebraska[/URL], the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakotas"]Dakotas[/URL], almost all of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma"]Oklahoma[/URL], most of western [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri"]Missouri[/URL], western [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin"]Wisconsin[/URL], eastern [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado"]Colorado[/URL], the eastern edge of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico"]New Mexico[/URL], parts of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois"]Illinois[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana"]Indiana[/URL], and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Texas"]North Texas[/URL]. Also included are some of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ontario"]Northern Ontario[/URL] and southern [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan"]Saskatchewan[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba"]Manitoba[/URL]. Capital: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Metropolitan_Area"]Kansas City[/URL].
[*][B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean"]The Islands[/URL][/B] — The [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Florida_metropolitan_area"]South Florida metropolitan area[/URL], the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades"]Everglades[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Keys"]Florida Keys[/URL], the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean"]Caribbean[/URL], and parts of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela"]Venezuela[/URL]. Capital: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami"]Miami[/URL].
[*][B]Mexamerica[/B] — the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California"]southern[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Central_Valley"]Central Valley[/URL] portions of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California"]California[/URL] as well as southern [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona"]Arizona[/URL], the portion of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas"]Texas[/URL] bordering on the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande"]Rio Grande[/URL], most of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico"]New Mexico[/URL] and all of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico"]Mexico[/URL], centered on either [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles"]Los Angeles[/URL] or [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City"]Mexico City[/URL] (depending on whom you ask), which are significantly [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language"]Spanish[/URL]-speaking. Garreau's original book did not place all of Mexico within Mexamerica, but only Northern Mexico and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baja_California_peninsula"]Baja California peninsula[/URL]. Capital: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles"]Los Angeles[/URL].
[*][B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia"]Ecotopia[/URL][/B] — the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest"]Pacific Northwest[/URL] coast west of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Range"]Cascade Range[/URL], stretching from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska"]Alaska[/URL] down through coastal [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"]British Columbia[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington"]Washington state[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon"]Oregon[/URL] and into [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California"]California[/URL] just north of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Barbara,_California"]Santa Barbara[/URL]. Capital: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco"]San Francisco[/URL].
[*][B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Quarter_%28North_America%29"]The Empty Quarter[/URL][/B] — most of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska"]Alaska[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada"]Nevada[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah"]Utah[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming"]Wyoming[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho"]Idaho[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana"]Montana[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado"]Colorado[/URL] from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver"]Denver[/URL] west, as well as the eastern portions of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon"]Oregon[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California"]California[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington"]Washington[/URL], all of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta"]Alberta[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Canada"]Northern Canada[/URL] (including what is now [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut"]Nunavut[/URL]), northern [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona"]Arizona[/URL], parts of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico"]New Mexico[/URL] (mainly the area controlled by the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation"]Navajo Nation[/URL]), and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"]British Columbia[/URL] east of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Ranges"]Coast Ranges[/URL]. Capital: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver"]Denver[/URL].
[*][B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec"]Quebec[/URL][/B] — the primarily [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_French"]French-speaking[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada"]province[/URL] of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"]Canada[/URL], which held [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum"]referenda[/URL] on [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement"]secession[/URL] in 1980 and 1995, the latter of which the "separatists" lost narrowly. Capital: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City"]Quebec City[/URL].
[/LIST]
Garreau also discussed several areas that he termed "aberrations":

[LIST]
[*][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C."]Washington, D.C.[/URL] and its surrounding area, specifically referring to the area "inside [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_495_%28Capital_Beltway%29"]the Beltway[/URL]".
[*][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan"]Manhattan[/URL] south of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem"]Harlem[/URL] (he placed Harlem, and by extension the Manhattan neighborhoods to its north, clearly within The Foundry).
[*][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii"]Hawaii[/URL], which he considered an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia"]Asian[/URL] aberration as much as a North American aberration.
[*]Northern [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska"]Alaska[/URL], despite its categorization on the front cover as part of the Empty Quarter, was listed in the aberrations section of the book.
[*]Although not included in the "Aberrations" chapter of his book, Southern [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia"]West Virginia[/URL] was named by Garreau as a region which had significant aspects of both Dixie (Appalachian geography and historical ties to Virginia) and The Foundry (coal-based and unionized economy closely tied to the fortunes of the Rust Belt), and could be placed in either nation. Garreau's conclusion about the region was "In good times, southeastern West Virginia can be considered an isolated part of the Foundry. In bad times, it is an isolated part of Dixie." Garreau placed the northern half of the state in The Foundry.
[/LIST]
[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Nations_of_North_America[/URL]

The book was written in 1981 so it might be a little dated.

[Hoboharry]

Well yeah, Europe has most of the clean air which is better for inhaling.
Unlike the pollution elsewhere.

[kijji]

I actually think that us Americans don't respect people as much as foreigners do. Not many of us give a shit about other people and are glad to worry for a close friend or relative, like me. I would love to live in a European country - Germany - because I'm studying German and the Euro is worth more than the USD. I also learned that the air is better - the police watch out for litterbugs, I take it - and that there's not much crime. I won't know till I go there, which probably won't happen. :sigh: Looks pretty.

[Jackbud]

UK is apart of Europe...but we have the pound sterling cause we don't take stick from no one...until Gordon brown made it worth the same as the Euro, prick.

Though it's still nearly double a dollar so Steam and other things are cheap.

[Perfumly]

[QUOTE=Eli Vance;20461013]

You're the American issue, someone who biasingly and blindly would kill themselves for there country because they think its the best, rather than for real reasons like protecting your right and freedoms.
Or just a troll, all I see from you is one sidedness.[/QUOTE]

How could you not see the satire dripping from that post you replied to

[Ronin]

[QUOTE=smurfy;20459015]America has a lot of batshit insanity that seperates it from the other developed countries of the world. Like not having universal healthcare, not having a major social democratic party, not using the metric system, and still using the death penalty.[/QUOTE]

Death Penalty is just, I'm sure if your mother was raped and then beheaded you'd want the guy dead.

[Mr_FJ]

[QUOTE=MR-X;20459048]Grass is always greener on the other side.[/QUOTE]

I disagree, I find my grass to be much greener than the grass in U, S and A :)

[editline]09:22PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;20494322]Death Penalty is just, I'm sure if your mother was raped and then beheaded you'd want the guy dead.[/QUOTE]

No, I would want him to be raped for 50 years in prison. Death is painless and fast... :(

[slippp22]

I'd rather have someone pretend to be nice to me other than some guy be a complete asshole to me

[Rollodes]

"We dun like your kind 'round 'ere. Des sum bitches talkin bout good ol' US of A. Git em Cletus!"

Mostly likely my neighbor's response.

[Stupideye]

Canadians are known for being overly polite. I don't see whats wrong if you just ignore Quebec.

[Bledrix]

I will be going to Ireland and UK next week for 10 days and Can't wait to see the differences from America.

[GerardV2]

You live in Russia? And you think it's better than the USA? Think again mothafucka. :patriot:

[hypno-toad]

[QUOTE=Timebomb757;20460976]We think Scottish accents are cool.[/QUOTE]

Everybody thinks scottish accents are cool. Even the scottish.

[Stupideye]

Do Canadians actually have an accent? Whenever I go to the US people always realize I'm Canadian right away. It is because I say eh all time or what?

[Rollodes]

[QUOTE=Stupideye;20507633]Do Canadians actually have an accent? Whenever I go to the US people always realize I'm Canadian right away. It is because I say eh all time or what?[/QUOTE]

When you say about do you pronounce it aboot? Eh might be the culprit. I'm sorry for that awful joke. You may make fun of my Dominicanish for revenge.

[Stupideye]

[QUOTE=loco;20507679]When you say about do you pronounce it aboot? Eh might be the culprit. I'm sorry for that awful joke. You may make fun of my Dominicanish for revenge.[/QUOTE]
I won't tase. A quick bj later will suffice.

And yes I say aboot.

[Maloof?]

[QUOTE=D-Roy;20458925]Try moving to the deep south of the U.S. The people here tend to think foreigners are awesome, even though there are the occasional elitist turds.

No matter where you go, there's bound to be an asshole being a dickhead about what you are rather than who.[/QUOTE]

Unless they're black foreigners.

[hypno-toad]

[QUOTE=Stupideye;20507633]Do Canadians actually have an accent? Whenever I go to the US people always realize I'm Canadian right away. It is because I say eh all time or what?[/QUOTE]

I think I have a slight accent. Mine seems a bit more north-eastern american if anything, despite living in west Canada. Probably due to talking with people from that area and watching too much TV.

[Parakon]

OP is horseshit and full of his remote shitty experiences, I live in Canada, bros take care of eachother, and there's a total of 5 people I hang out with that are from distant lands, Wales, South Korea, Colombia, to name a few, two girls one from holland and the other mexico left recently due to them being in a program.

maybe it's just you bro.

[nERVEcenter]

Wow, this thread is a load of horseshit. People are going to be surprised in November when they discover that most Americans are "batshit insane" and like their gun rights, privatized healthcare, and control of their government.

Guess ya'll are going to have to live with it.

[laval]

OP please elaborate because your post makes no sense - how do you figure the people here "just do less fun things" (???) and I don't understand how you would run into these types of troubles unless you buy your friends off or are obnoxiously demanding of them or something.

[QUOTE=AmericanInfantry;20491218]I actually think that us Americans don't respect people as much as foreigners do. Not many of us give a shit about other people and are glad to worry for a close friend or relative, like me. I would love to live in a European country - Germany - because I'm studying German and the Euro is worth more than the USD. I also learned that the air is better - the police watch out for litterbugs, I take it - and that there's not much crime. I won't know till I go there, which probably won't happen. :sigh: Looks pretty.[/QUOTE]

Litter doesn't cause air pollution

[QUOTE=Stupideye;20507532]Canadians are known for being overly polite. I don't see whats wrong if you just ignore Quebec.[/QUOTE]

Quebec is cool

[Parakon]

Quebecs cool when they aren't being a bitchy burden

[OutOfPop]

I'm sick of all the people in this world. I'd love my own planet, one not full of assholes.

[Clever-Balls]

England and America are the same country fyi. Germanic countries are the best imo.

[editline]12:56PM[/editline]

American'ts

[GreaseGunner]

ITT: My homeland is better than yours because i'm from there hurf durf.