This thread quickly turned into an argument about which European country is best.
[QUOTE=Masterofstars;44348756]Most European countries are just as young as America. Others, like England, aren't even five hundred years older.[/QUOTE]
States in their current.. Well, state; are young, yeah. The nation however is thousands of years old with recorded history going all the way from then to now, with bomb-ass castles and old cities and churches and cool shit everywhere. America is all like "Boo hoo, we had slavery and a civil war, are we historic now?" and the answer is no. No you're not.
[QUOTE=jiggu;44348779]Denmark is just South Sweden, come to real Sweden instead.[/QUOTE]
Pffh, Sweden is just Norway, where everybody talks even weirder!
[video=youtube;ebqdwQzmSHM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebqdwQzmSHM[/video]
Come to the UK it's great. [video=youtube;cU7Vw82GbRg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU7Vw82GbRg[/video]
[QUOTE=lekkimsm;44348841]Pffh, Sweden is just Norway, where everybody talks even weirder!
[video=youtube;ebqdwQzmSHM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebqdwQzmSHM[/video][/QUOTE]
Nah. Sweden is Norway, but without the charm or money.
Having been to the US, Europe and of course Australia.
Europe is fucking awesome. Most places at least.
Portugal and Norway aren't really in the same kind of category, can't judge it all as one place
[QUOTE=war_man333;44348811]This thread quickly turned into an argument about which European country is best.[/QUOTE]
No argument, everyone know Sweden = superior.
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[QUOTE=Riller;44348838]States in their current.. Well, state; are young, yeah. The nation however is thousands of years old with recorded history going all the way from then to now, with bomb-ass castles and old cities and churches and cool shit everywhere. America is all like "Boo hoo, we had slavery and a civil war, are we historic now?" and the answer is no. No you're not.[/QUOTE]
Thats hilariously ignorant. I can hear Washington laughing at you from Mount Rushmore right now.
I guess the main difference would be the history. I literally just opened my window and took this picture:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7vWWW0b.jpg[/IMG]
I could walk to the other side of my house and take a picture of this much bigger church:
[IMG]http://www.vaboput.nl/Mariapadfoto%27s/Hervormde_Kerk_in_Elst.jpg[/IMG]
A church, built in the 15th century. The crypt was built in the 10th century. They found remains of the foundations of two other churches built on the exact same place, and two Roman temples.
It depends which country and city you intend to be in.
If I were to choose a place I would like to visit, I probably would choose Croatia or Slovenia - just because they seem rather cheap and nice to me.
As of Poland, you can try coming here, but I'm not sure if it's worth the risk.
[QUOTE=Riller;44348838]States in their current.. Well, state; are young, yeah. The nation however is thousands of years old with recorded history going all the way from then to now, with bomb-ass castles and old cities and churches and cool shit everywhere. America is all like "Boo hoo, we had slavery and a civil war, are we historic now?" and the answer is no. No you're not.[/QUOTE]
You're culture only developed well after 1066, you're not the Anglo Saxons of old. Likewise; America has many old buildings from a culture we killed off too.
skip out on scandinavia unless you like being outside, in that case you can find plenty of beautiful nature, anything else is most likely a waste of your time
continental europe is where you want to be, germany, france, netherlands, czech republic, italy, et cetera, i think those are the places with the most flavoured cultures. i would skip out on the british isles too if i were you, but im saying that as an anglophobe and because my first (and last) trip to england was a huge dissapointment. portugal and spain can be fine... go to eastern europe only if you think you can handle it, basically. but then again eastern europe really isnt europe.
hope that helped buddy
[QUOTE=Masterofstars;44349060]You're culture only developed well after 1066, you're not the Anglo Saxons of old. Likewise; America has many old buildings from a culture we killed off too.[/QUOTE]
Well our flag was given to us by God himself during battle against the dirty-ass Estonians, turning the tide in our favor despite totally being on the losing end for a while; yours was sown by a blind bitch or something. Your folklore sucks.
[QUOTE=Riller;44348907]Nah. Sweden is Norway, but without the charm or money.[/QUOTE]
Norway is like Sweden, but with less cultural and scientific accomplishments.
We put mayonnaise on our French fries, careful it's full of crazies there.
If you want to experience the whole of Europe, you have to at least have gone to the east, the central, the north and the west of Europe because every place is really different.
The eastern countries are ok, some look kind of poor but theres also pretty good places to visit like Budapest. I can't really say much because I havent been there all that often.
Central is the best if youre over 40. Its safe, clean but not that sunny. Ive been living in Germany for a couple of years and I have to say that it's nice, although sometimes it can be boring. But for someone new here I can imagine it to be really cool
Western Europe has a really different vibe. Having lived most of my life in Portugal I can say the people are very different from the people in Germany. Theyre relaxed, really friendly and warm. The architecture and landscape also change dramatically, from green forests and geometrically organized cities to rustic buildings with stone pavement and yellow fields.
North is alright, lots of snow, haven't been there long enough
[QUOTE=CyberHawk;44349154]Norway is like Sweden, but with less cultural and scientific accomplishments.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_knife#Cheese_slicer[/url]
Checkmate
Well, Iceland is big, beautiful, friendly, but our politics kinda suck and everything is corrupt.
But the mountains!
Denmark is great, it's just the landscape is really flat and boring. Compared to other countries with beautiful scenery, Denmark has forests farms, a few lakes, and the rest is fields when you enter the country side. I would say the beaches is the only thing that's a tiny bit nice. Also be prepared to get used to 10 months of cloudy weather, where it's dark most of the time, 15 degrees or below and only 2 months of summer. continental is the place to be
Finland is uninhabitable in the late autumn, winter and early spring. Not because of the cold, but because of the dark and how dead everything is.
The rest is fine though.
But yeah, europe is pretty cool. I've been to London, Lisbon, Tallinn, Oslo and a town in northern Greece called Didymoteicho as well as a whole bunch of rural areas in between, all of which were pretty great.
Fuck you Scands, you don´t have a single [URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Burek_trokut_3.gif"]burek[/URL] against us.
[QUOTE={TFS} Rock Su;44349627]Fuck you Scands, you don´t have a single [URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Burek_trokut_3.gif"]burek[/URL] against us.[/QUOTE]
is that a dried up lasagna
[QUOTE=Feyed;44347604]The main reason I'm asking this (none of you guys probably give a feck, anyway) is because I'm kind of concerned for the US. We're 17 trillion dollars in debt, and as well our government is shit. I don't have the money to move, nor am I old enough, but really, who would want to someday be alone on a wasteland where everyone out there is just going to want to loot you and kill you?[/QUOTE]
The public debt figure in the US is, to you as an individual, completely irrelevant. Also, the United States simply can't default on its liabilities. If it did the the entire world would be dipped into yet another recession, and the creditors know that.
Obviously going to be biased based on what my flagdog says, but come to Australia. It has much in common with the US: the same language (obviously), the same legal system (common law, which is used in pretty much all countries ever settled by the Brits), much of how the government works is inspired by the US (our government is a hybrid of the British Westminster system and the American model) and most media related things come directly from the US. We listen to the same artists, watch the same movies, and watch the same TV shows (unless their is a British version, then we watch that).
But then their are the added benefits of being in one of the most (recognised as most) democratic societies in the world (very low corruption, fair elections and preferential voting for all seats in government plus proportional voting for many state legislatures and the federal Senate), very progressive in terms of the labour movement (you get sick leave and personal leave, both of which are paid for, plus you receive bonuses for working overtime or on weekends), wages are good with supermarket shelf packers typically earning $22 an hour, and universal healthcare that isn't horseshit. Plus tonnes more. Don't go to Europe, come to Straya.
[QUOTE=Kentz;44349646]is that a dried up lasagna[/QUOTE]
Nuh-uh.
[QUOTE]burek is made from layers of dough, alternating with layers of other fillings in a circular baking pan and then topped with a last layer of dough.[/QUOTE] Fucking amazing with normal yogurt btw.
Still doesn't compete with Dutch vla.
[QUOTE=Xavith;44349473][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_knife#Cheese_slicer[/url]
Checkmate[/QUOTE]
Sane people use this kind, though.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/xemH5qi.png[/IMG]
Cuts wider slices and ajustable thickness; spike-end for thick slices and rear-end for thin.
Germany is literally one of the best places to live if you're starting to think about the future and settling down and stuff. Or during college education.
Poland is an, uhh, interesting place if you're adventurous. It's a wild country :v:
Entire balkan is utter shit when it comes to living. It's a decent enough place to see things tho
And to eat.
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