Without judging anyone , what I find strange that some user ehre who c aim to be American are contemplating to move to a Euroepan country? People have their own reasons to do things...but I assume most of these people have not been to Europe and perhaps romaticizing something they had little or no personal experience with. Yes, Europe has many countries and each of them may be different from one another.
But there are some things that are common that are true for every country in Europe.
Just some foor for thought. Needless to say, you should do your own research.
1. Europe is overcrowded
I remember one guy from the days of RVF who was complaining that he felt "Idaho was overcrowded" - not sure if he was troling...but someone who thinks Idaho is overcrowded would certainly go insave in less than 24 hours in a place like the UK, the Netherlands or Germany. Also, parts of Europe that are not overcrowded are empty for a reason...as they are uninhabitable for a reason or another.
Historically, Europe has always been more crowded than the US. Add, the migrant crisis sicne 2015 - Europe is at a breaking point.
2. There is barely any nature left in Europe
By nature we meanly mean forests (usually temperate forest)that are accessible the public free of charge - outside of some remote parts of Norway and Belarus there are no forests left...and if there are some, the public is usually restricted from acessing it.
Contrast it with the US .
Just a few examples: Pine Barrens, NJ, beautiful natural forests - just 2 hours drive from the alrgest urban are ain the US...NYC.
Not to mention the beautiful areas in other parts of the American Northeast - mostly in Vermont and Maine.
The Smoky Mountains (WV and Northern Georgia- albeit if you have seen the movie "Deliverance" you would probably avoid that area)
Northern Arizona has beautiful forests - thata re wonderful during spring and fall.
Central and Western Colorado. Beautiful forests in Oregon (a hour drive from Portland), and in Washington (not that far from Seattle).
I am sure I left out many areas...but you get the picture.
3. The people and their mentality
Most Europeans are stressed out and rude - Western, Eastern, Central, Northern, Southern - there aremore similarities than differences.
The firts things that strikes you positively in the US is the civility and politeness of the people...even in a fast-paced, relatively crowded city like New York City.
(Well, Boston, MA is an exception...but people from MA are known nationally as complete a-holes).
We know that cilvility and politeness won't cost a dime, but most Euroepans don't understand that.
4. The women
before you start shaking your head, let me explain.
Before you say "there are so many overweight and obese women in the States". I got news for you.
Obesity is now nearly as a big problem in most of Europe than in the US. Actually, even the official statistics confirm this.
I probably saw less overweight and obese women in NYC, Dallas and El Paso than I saw in London, Paris, Amsterdam and Prague.
Also, European women are truly awful in Europe - most have a deep hatred towards European men. Not talking about dating or relationsip (I don't date European women) bu simply interaction. European women tend to be the rudest, most obnoxious and most malicious ones.
On the other hand, I was surpsised how "normal" some White women appeared in Texas...at least on the surface.
The problem is , "White" Europeann women destroy other women, they interact with too. Imagine falling in love with a former model from country in Southen Africa when she arrives to London to do a postgraduate course. Three months laster she want to marry you and talks about having kids with you. But sadly she is exposed from influence from European women. Six months later she states she does not want to date and marry, because that is "opression". A year later she is the main campaigner for the legalization of abortion in her home country...(9 eyars later she is still childless and alone)
Or when you spend time and money on a long-distance relationship with a beauty from Burundi who only comes to Brussels for a semester. Falls in love with you, want marriage and kids after graduation. Before the semester ends she changes her mind, "wanting to study gender studies" instead.
My good friend from my uni years , lets call him Sandeep (not his real name), British-Indian (his parent were from Punjab).
Marries a British-Indian girl her parents found for him. 6 eyars of marriage and two kids later he seems happy. Until I get a desperate call from Sandeep , saying his wife wants a divorce, wants him out of their marital home and she wants to live with her newly-found White English lesbian "girlfriend".
Crucially, male-female ratio in Europe in the 18-35 age group is terrible now - especially with the current migrant crisis - is absolutely terrible. Roughly same as that of the Communist China's (even though no country in Europe has ever had any "one child polocy" in place).
I could go on...but I think you get the picture.
4. Citizen v subject.
In the US (except perhaps for Massachusetts and Pennsylvania) you are a citizen with right - which inlcudes your rights to bear arms and home-school your kids
In Europe, you are subject, a slave...you only have right to keep your mouth shut, work and pay taxes. Your "masters" will tell you waht to do> If you disobey in any way or form, you will be severely punished and your life will be not worth living.
Have you noticed, that European leaders (unlike Americans) never use the words "citizen" unless it indicates some state's rights over that person (citizenship) such as "XY is a citizens of YW country"?
George Washington and the Funding Fathers got you rights that nobody in Europe has ever had (or will ever have).
Don't take these rights for granted. Make use of them
5.Cost of Living
Most of the US is incredibly cheap compared to Europe, for nearly all the essentials - housing, groceries, utilities, electris good, cars, insuranc etc.
Before you start with buh "muh free state healthcare" staff. let me stop you there.
There is no "free healthcare in Europe" . You pay for it with high taxes. But crucially, the quality of such ehalthcare is really bad, and often there ar elong-waiting list even to see a consultant. Currently in the in the "world-famous" NHS in the UK, there is average of 9 to 18 months (!) waiting list to see a Vascular Surgeon.
Private healthcare in Europe? You won't be able to afford it...that is priced for the the Arabic oil sheikhs, Russian oligarkhs and Chinese corporate billionaires...not for proles like you.
In Texas, a Walmar cashier with a Walmart salary can afford better healthcare than a university-educated teacher in the UK
Go figure.
6. Tribalism
Sadly most of Europe is very tribalistic - and that is a negative thing.
This doesn't always manifest in the way most people would expect.
Example: many Brits disliked people from the rest of the continent but particulalry from Eastern Europe.
Uneducated British yob are a category on their own - they may talk about the French with mockery but they have deep hatred towards eastern Euroepans. I hate soccer (football in Europe) but I clealry remember the 2018 Soccer World Cup - the "underdog" team of the relatively poor Croatia sent the almighty, arrogant "Three Lions" (nickname for the English team) packing in the semi-final. In the final, the Croats faced the French team. Seeing the dim-witted, beer-bellied, uneducated English yobs cheering for their arch-rivals , the French...was a surreral sight to behold.
The typical White Englishman has a daughter who has two kids from two different Jamaican baby-daddies. He might have son, who is a addict and gets his fix from a local Pakistani heroin-dealer (nothing against Pakistani folks in general, , just the drug-dealing ones).
Yet, which group of people this "brave" Englishman will complain about? You guessed it: 5 years after Brexit he will still blame his shortcoming on "dirty f-ing Eastern Europeans who should go back to their own f-ing country", despite the said groupd never crossing path with him or his "family"..
How much solidarity you should have (as a naturalzied British citizens who is originally from continental Europe) shoudl have such White English people? The same amount they had for you: that is zero.
"Whiteness", "White Unitiy" "white solidarity" (of which many users here talk about) are maningless concepts in Europe. It's up to you if you think it is good or bad: Just be prepared.
7. "But, but, but....muh tradional, virgin (insert name of country and Christian denomination) wife"
How many times do we need to go through this?
Christianity is dead and buried in Europe (there will be no resurrection in this case). Church attendance is lower, divorce rates are higher than in the US. Immorality and degeneracy is just as high in Europe than in the US (soemtiems even higher).
No, you won't find a unicorn.
In the US , sometimes you would be suprised how many decent Christian women are there (who take their religion seriously...and not just when it suits them), even where you would least expect them. Once I met a young woman from Alameda County (yep, the Bay Area - a stone throw away from both San Francisco and Oakland) who was more committed Christian than cca 95% of European women I met .
Please don't talk about Eastern Europe. Those women are the worst affected by moral degeneracy and materialism. In the 1950s when in the US a husband's salary was still enough to raize a fmaily, and women were encouraged to be stay-at-home mums..in EE, the state already forced women to work shift work in factories, leaving the kids in crappy nurseries while at works. Divorce was legalized and even encouraged even back then. Now, you have had multiple generations of extremely materialistic women. Yes, they would have no clue that Orthodox/Catholic saint you are talking about it is . But most of them would certainly know who Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are. Many of these girls see K. Kardashian as a "role model".
Let's leave it at that.
To sum it up: by all means, you can visit any country of Europe if you wish. But any American thinking of moving from the US to (anywhere) in Europe is either deluded or hasn't done his homework.
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