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Nope. It's because USAians are generally crap at learning other languages, they want to be where their family is and they are taught from an early age that the USA is the best country in the world.
I guess you have just named all the countries you know the names of in the EU. Romania and Bulgaria have weaker economies. In Spain I can rent a flat for 250 Euros a month and its normal to have 6 weeks paid vacation per year. The economy suits me really well compared to the couple of weeks vacation you have a year and how expensive everything is.
The economy isnt the most important thing. I guess anyone from the USA wouldn't understand that. I assume the suicide rate would go through to roof if you all realised that much of the world works to live will you all live to work.
I guess anyone from the USA wouldn't understand that.
Try heading to the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) and saying that. Not everyone in the U.S. lives to work, or believes that mentality is a positive thing.
Right. That is how a purely capitalist society is maintained. WORK WORK WORK or society will collapse and it will be YOUR fault!!!! Actually we can all live on a little less and enjoy live and, guess what, the world keeps spinning.
Spain's economy is on the up. Fortunately though the cost of living will never be as high as it is in the USA - I assume that is one why you measure a strong economy.
What kind of philosophy is, "Let's all be lazy together!!!" Imagine a household. Someone has to be the responsible parent and take care of things. I once did a simulation using The Syms. It was a house hold of just 2 children. They were dead in no time at all.
If Spain's economy fails, who is to blame if not the lazy Spaniards?
We are not talking about a society of people not working. We are talking about people that work at 70 or 80% of what the USA works. People that actually have time to enjoy life. Don't you envy it? Some people in the USA don't get on paid vacation. They start working and don't have a full week's rest again until they retire. How sad is that?
Well, I work, I save my money and I got to places like Austria, Jamaica, Tahiti, Hawaii.... I don't understand the problem. You just want someone to pay for your vacation without really having earned it?
Haha to me, and many people that work outside the USA, asking that question is like saying "you want to sleep at night and still recieve a salary???". Vacation is something that is expected because it is so important to life.
I can imagine how it is in the US... A couple wants to go on holiday for a couple of weeks. They find a cheap deal that will cost them 500 dollars for both. If each one of them earns 500 dollars a week.. It means that the true cost of the holiday is 2500 dollars. I imagine some prople have never been on holiday for thst length of time considering the high cost. I can't adequately express how ridiculous and unfair that seems to me.
My point is that the USA is the best because of its cooperation that dominate the world. It is not the best in workers rights or safety or anything else that makes an individual happy. It is not the best at the things that actually matter.
Well let's say. Being able to afford my tuition fees of 1.5k a year and, if I work a little during the year, my 200 euros rent a month. Being able to download films and music and take drugs without worrying about spending years in jail.
Most of all though it is peace of mind. I know that if a friend of mine or a member of my family has trouble with the police for a minor crime and for example, they are scared and try and run, they will not be shot in the back of the head as punishment. Also that if I am ill, but don't have any money I know I will be treated the same as a rich man.
Rhetoric my ass. The is a very good reason people aren't moving to Spain, with the exception of yourself of course. But then you were in Britain sooooooo
the US has a problem with guns, this is undeniable. it is has the highest gun related deaths among developed countries in the world. however while banning guns is only one solution, other nations have proven its potency for reducing gun crimes. just look at these two links, the correlation is generally very obvious. it isn't even up for argument. restricting guns is effective. a good example is japan. 0.6 guns per 100 people. 0.06 gun-deaths per 100,000. if you were to scale japans total gun related deaths by population in comparison to the US, the US should have a min5, max 30 deaths per year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numberofgunspercapitabycounhowever there are large discrepencies in this trend, and frankly this is because the US is so irresponsible. america has a total of about 30,000 deaths gun related deaths annually. 8000 of these are homicides, leaving 22,000 gun-[suicides or accidents]. additionally there are countries with relatively high gun ownership rates, but with far lower gun related deaths per capita. eg. germany with 30.3 guns per hundred (relatively very high from the mean rate per country, but pales to the US's trophy 88.8) has 1.24 deaths per 100,000. america has 8 times this, despite also having relatively high gun ownership rates.
What you fail to realize is that maybe those gun related deaths were justified. For example, maybe they were too stupid to be playing with a gun, or maybe they deserved to be shot for something they did or maybe their life did suck and so they're better off dead.
No matter how you look at it, those death reduced the congestion in our streets. And that's always a good thing. It also reduced America's carbon foot print, thus alleviating the global warming problem. I don't understand why the rest of the world thinks that dying is a bad thing.
From what I can tell, strict gun legislation alone will only prevent mass murders, not violent crimes. (At least until someone comes up with a better mass-murder weapon.)