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—I was in Europe (France and Italy) last week on business and I thank my Lord that I live in the US. Europeans are poor compared to us, period.—

You think? They dress better than us. They have far more social options than us. Go out and buy things like flowers and the like more than us. Their produce is generally better than what you find in the US. Just look at the variety of dining/shopping options in your average European city, even smaller ones.

I don’t know. I’ve become very skeptical of what is called wealth lately.

Their is a spiritual poverty that I find very lacking in Europe, but I’m not sure I’m in the camp that says that we have so much more and they so much less.

Give me a break??! They make less money than us, they are taxed more than us, and almost everything they buy is more expensive if not much more expensive than here. Our standards of living in the US are much better than Europe.

You are talking about restaurants? are you serious? In order to get a belly full in Europe you have to pay a fortune in a restaurant and no they do not have more food variety than the US. How about their little micro cars that they drive, do want to drive this crap? Do you want to pay 8 dollars for a gallon of gas. About clothing? Nope Europeans do not dress better than Americans, in fact if you go to the streets you notice that the vast majority of them dress with American style cloth, jeans and shirts, the US have more influence on the way they dress than they have influence on the way we dress here. How about all the others things that make our lives better, bigger homes, electronics, computers, TV's, etc... they are all much more expensive in Europe than here. Even their own products are cheaper to buy here in the US than in Europe.

Now what other social services are you talking about? scrweed up healthcare service? Do you want this type of services? Or do you want to live on welfare with 400 dollars a week? Our standards of living is much better than Europe because our purchasing power in the US is much stronger, and that is a fact as 1+1=2, and if you do not see it then you are delusional.

“Their is a spiritual poverty that I find very lacking in Europe, but I’m not sure I’m in the camp that says that we have so much more and they so much less.”

I agree.

But one thing they don’t have as much of is living space. They live in multi-family dwellings much more than we do.

But, then again, they have lots more free time to enjoy life b/c they aren’t out there doing home repair and yardwork all the freakin’ time!