There’s more than just an ocean keeping these two apart!
Take The Kitchen With Them
“Specifically Germans in this case. When you move, you take the kitchen with you. That is just mind boggling to me.”
Removal of The Kitchen
“In The Netherlands, you take the flooring with you. Obviously I can’t do that with tile, but it seems to be common for laminate?”
Take Out The Kitchen Cupboards
“In France, people often take the fixtures and fittings, so it’s not uncommon to find a twisted wire hanging out of the ceiling instead of a light, curtains and rails gone.”
Food Aisle Lies
“You guys have hamburger flavored Cheetos in your “American Food” aisle.”
Made up Snacks
“Homie, we don’t even have those.”
Outside Light Switches
“I can’t remember if this is Ireland-specific or a thing in the rest of Europe, but the bathroom light switch is outside of the door.”
The Light is Outside the Bathroom
“Pray tell, Ireland, just how many times a father or a sibling has flicked the switch on and off or just straight up turned it off while you were doing your business?”
Electronics Are Prohibited From Bathrooms
“We [Europeans] have strict zonal laws on where you can have electricity in a bathroom.”
No Electronics in The Bathroom
“You can have a switch in a bathroom if it’s a pull string.”
Conversation Etiquette
“Two Germans will go into an office and shut the door as though they’re talking about something important. Nope, just soccer.”
Speaking Etiquette
“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.” – Bill Shankly
Lack of Personal Space
“I lived in Germany for 3 years, I loved everything about it, except one thing; personal space doesn’t exist in lines. Step back, man.”
Personal Space Doesn’t Exist
Another user agreed: “When I came back to France after 4 years in Texas, it was one of the most annoying things to me. I hate it so much. Americans can queue, man.”
August Siesta
“I do find it a bit odd that everyone sort of agrees nothing happens in August. Like, for a whole month, you better not need anything done – even doctors seem scarce.”
August Break
“Schools close and offices have a sort of agreement of taking 2 weeks off in August, but they don’t have an agreement on which ones. So yes, basically everything will be closed, and all the people will be on holiday all around the world.”
“It’s basically the EU version of Ramadan: don’t plan anything in the EU in August, not even holidays (it’s not gonna be cheap at all).”
Pay ‘N Pee
“Make people pay to use public toilets.”
Pay to Use the Bathroom
“I’m European and I can’t understand that as well.”
“I’d give my two cents on the topic, but I had to pee earlier.”
Smoking
“Europeans seem to smoke a lot more than Americans, and, unlike us, at face value there don’t seem to be discrepancies based on class or anything; everyone smokes.”
“I’m an American in Europe right now and the amount of people I see smoking is crazy when compared to the amount I see smoking back in the states.”
Multilingual Game
“The wild thing is that you can drive from Lisbon, Portugal to Athens, Greece and pass through several countries with a multitude of languages in about 42 hours.”
So Many Languages
“You can drive from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 42 hours and a large majority of people will speak English as their primary, often only, language and you never leave the US.”
Baby Naps
“Leaving babies napping outside, alone, in cold weather. (This is specifically aimed at the Scandinavians!).”
Leaving your Baby Outside
“I was in Denmark in November and it was a super windy, cold week (ranged from -6 degrees *to -9 degrees Celsius) and this honestly stunned me.”
“If you tried that in my state the mosquitos would fly off with the baby.”
Open Borders
“I’m going to Europe on my honeymoon, and it’s been crazy to me how other countries just have open borders.
Enter as you Please
“I’m taking the ICE from Germany to France, and there are no border checks? It’s really fascinating to me.”
Tracksuit Love
“The fascination with tracksuits. A lot of the guys loved tracksuits.”
Politeness
“In Paris, I was offered a seat on the metro when there was none every single time. (I’m a senior). Very seldom happens here.”
Kindness
“It’s very common, I do feel bad when I offer up my seat, and they don’t take it. It seems like I just called them old and disabled.”
Eating Dinner Late
“A lot of European cultures eat dinner so late at night. I can’t imagine eating dinner at 8 or 9 at night.”
Dinner at 9pm
“In the Netherlands/Germany/ and further, the dining is more typical to the US. Spain/Italy/Croatia, though… I thought I was gonna starve to death.”
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