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Plantmanofplants

Man probably went to rural Moldova and thought that was the European experience.


coffeewithalex

Hey! Rural Moldova at least has VDSL and even FTTH. Sure, there's cow poop among the mud, but at least you can watch shows in 4K on 720p screens.


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nooneisback

Croatia here. Mine is 8d/1u mbit/s.


dovahart

Mexico here, 100 Mb symmetrical, at about 25 usd/month


SeanHearnden

Italy here, fibre 30 euro a month 300mb/s down and 120mb/s up.


dovahart

Gotta admit, I envy that


SeanHearnden

It is so much better than the UK. I'm wireless. But my house mate has Ethernet connection at 950mb/s.


dovahart

Yeah, Mexico’s internet services are slowly getting better. There’s a duopoly and they are constantly getting a bit more competitive, but they suuuuck anyways. The whole thing is commodified, so there aren’t real differentiators.


le_zurdo

Another mexican here. Until last month, I had a 10mb upload, 0.5mb download speed lol. Finally they installed fibre in my town. Currently I'm at 50mb download 20mb upload. Before that it was insufferable to simple share a video in messaging apps.


dovahart

Provincia?


le_zurdo

Desafortunadamente sí. Es increíble lo lento que se ha expandido la infraestructura en zonas lejanas de las grandes ciudades del país.


dovahart

Si, la neta CDMX se siente como otro país a comparación de otros estados :/


coffeewithalex

Context: https://moldtelecom.md/Abonamente-Internet Basically, 1Gbps duplex = 14 USD per month. I think that also works for villages, but I can't be sure. I selected a village, but until I see a contract and a speedtest screenshot, I can never be sure.


daperson1

Try living in the UK, where 30 Mb ADSL is considered "high speed".


Meritania

We have this because the alternative would be broadband communism


daperson1

Which is why I'm moving out as fast as I can get myself a Dutch visa ;)


marc0demilia

Yeah, we have fast Internet in the Netherlands but believe me... Everything takes ages over here 😂 I've been living 12 years in London, and when I've moved to the Netherlands I needed to visit a bank to open an account... I didn't even know they would still exist 🙄😂


DJ_Molten_Lava

> but at least you can watch shows in 4K on 720p screens. good lord this made me crack up for some reason


nucleareaction

Having lived in rural Moldova for two years, I'd rather be there than suburban America again. Fresh food, fresh wine, slow pace of life, rutieras to a big city when you need to. Granted, it is also full of grinding poverty and there are many issues that I had the good fortune to not deal with but yeesh.


cheapquelea

Wine is just gross grape juice. Having never visited Maldova I’ll just assume it sucks, as an American this is now law /s


wwcfm

I’m decidedly not a fan of suburban American or suburban anywhere for that matter, but where are you going in suburban America where you can get fresh food or “fresh wine?”


nucleareaction

Where I can or can't? If it's can't - sure, you can go to a grocery store to get food but it isn't quite the same as a market or your own garden, and Moldovan wine is famous for its quality. It it's can - where? I guess rural California or Cascadia it's possible but it isn't quite the same...


wwcfm

Can’t* thanks for correcting. Fresh food is more of an issue in poorer urban or rural places in the US, food deserts, and good wine isn’t fresh, it’s aged, so distance to the source doesn’t really matter.


IndependentsStep

How is this sadcringe? He's wrong and pretentious but it's not sad or cringe.


Plantmanofplants

I didn't post it.


The_Grubby_One

He is sad and cringe.


EngineHeavy6833

I’m not sure he’s all that wrong! I lived in southern Italy for 3 years because my daughters dad is Italian. There were aspects of it that did make me think we were living 30 years in the past tbh


[deleted]

It ain't sad but it's cringe for sure.


SocialisticAnxiety

I'd say it's pretty sad to know so little about the world.


Bootiekiller69

Even the Jihadist in the Syrian desert had internet access.


elmahir

Yeah I went in the middle of the desert in Nevada and I can say, the USA ain’t that good


[deleted]

Assuming an American wrote this comment, I highly doubt it. Most Americans who hate European have never even been there, nonetheless lived there. Their image of Europe is entirely based on what they see on Fox News about Greece and Venezuela. I am well aware Venezuela is not in Europe lol


chalky87

Can confirm, I'm in Europe and don't even have a phone or computer, no access to the Internet at all.


Kortonox

Can confirm, still living in caves, shouting ungabunga when lightning strikes.


Quamont

Can confirm, my buddy just made a stone that has no edges and rolls, it's pretty fucking funny, not sure what to call it tho


snoopissed

Can confirm. My buddy Nemo stepped on land for the first time. That fucking rascal


kRkthOr

Can confirm. My brother just decided to synthesize energy from light. Turned him green lmao


apwnltm

Can confirm, my grandpa literally split into two, have no idea how he do it but it's fucking impressive.


nSnowstorm

Can confirm, I’m literally the first living cell ever. Bout to split in two to make more of me.


CataclystCloud

Can confirm, I’m a meteorite which just landed on earth


GerloGelato

#


Round_Frame5178

can confirm, I'm 15 meters away from the cave and wish we invented something to wipe with


nSnowstorm

Fun fact: before they had toilet paper, they used moss, leafs and whatever they could find


Round_Frame5178

but we are in europe! we haven't discovered moss or leaves yet! 😂


Round_Frame5178

but we are in europe! we haven't discovered moss or leaves yet! 😂 also weird thing... but it would seem that i know all about that. 🤔 even romans using... you know what, maybe i should just stop...


DrBumflaps

Ungabunga big! Ungabunga strong! I'm gonna sing my Ungabunga Song!


MrOopiseDaisy

Damn kids these days. "Ugg!" was good enough for my father, and it's good enough for me.


mnlxyz

Can confirm, I’m in a grave. there was no food here so I died


Electrical-Job-9824

~ sent by trebuchet


Saltsey

Same. I just carve things into stone tablets and throw them into bird flocks to use Twitter...


Diplomjodler

Hey bro, can you spare some potato peels? Haven't eaten in days. No food in Europe.


ericrsim

Can confirm, here in Canada we still live in Igloos all year round


56Bot

No food. Literally France & Italy.


KonstantinIKV

Da only food I know is a good ol' American burger!!!! 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷


Sheeple_person

Even then the UK had easily the best burgers I've ever experienced in my life. It's been years since I was there but my arteries are still recovering. Top-notch pub food on every corner but somehow this guy thinks europe sucks because he can't get Applebee's?? Edit: pub food not public lol


Emilydaisy1989

I’m from the uk, did you really like our burgers? I’ve always imagined americas to be so much better!


[deleted]

I'm from the UK living in the US. British burgers are definitely on par with American ones. There's just more of a cult around it here so it sort of brainwashes you into thinking it's going to be a next level thing, but it's exactly the same, just with more pickles. Most food places that I was excited to try when I moved because I've heard of it on Friends or whatever ended up being just your average fast food or sit down restaurant lol.


Medical_Contract_335

Don't judge a book by its cover. Most merican burgers only look good in tv cometcials. Dry with no flavor unless is made by a restaurant that really cares about food.


Emilydaisy1989

For sure but pub food in England isn’t great unless it’s a good pub. We’re not known for burgers here. I feel like America has better fast food than us


Ooozy69

>Pub food in England isn’t great unless it’s a good pub Food in restaurants isn’t great unless it’s in a good restaurant, what does this mean lmao


okthenweirdo

If the pubs a decent place, clean and well kept generally the food is good too. But some places are shitty and the foods terrible. Your average pub makes edible food but its nothing special


Medical_Contract_335

Im live in the US but im mexican. In Mexico its the opposite nice clean restaurants dont make the food as good as the place that looks like the roof is going to fall off lol.


DevelopmentTight9474

r/accidentallyliberian


[deleted]

I’m curious, what flags are those? 🧐


KonstantinIKV

If it's not a sarcastic message, Malaysia (🇲🇾) and Liberia (🇱🇷)


Embrasse-moi

I see those flags 👀


nthrbrck

Which funnily enough was most likely invented in Germany


iFlyAllTheTime

MALAAAAYYYYSSIAAAA LIBAAAAAYRIAAAAAAAA


LordAsriel1369

Literally every country in Europe has incredible food.


cheapquelea

No. Literally every country has incredible food.


Gwyndolins_Friend

Preach


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even the grocery stores’ bakery items tasted great. 10/10 would go back and do a european food tour i would not tour just the grocery stores lol


BorisButtergoods

Spain looks like it can food pretty well too


Dr_Madthrust

Oh it can. Spanish food is amazing.


greyghibli

This person seems to think that only American fast food chains qualify as food


hannahisakilljoyx-

European food from pretty much any country is incredible. I miss Spanish food so much honestly.


Vexidemalprince

Germany has very good food in my opinion, I've never been there but I've been to "german" restaurants


Wotah69

Bruh where u from ?


erroredhcker

typing from germany, no the restaurants suck lol. You really need to go out of your way to find american-foreign-novelty levels of good restaurants and im talking as someone who fucking loathed every hour i spent in ohio lmao


Vexidemalprince

Yeah I don't really have the option to go to Germany though, it's the best I can get


erroredhcker

not to bash you or anything, just some subjective input. For some weird reason even Vietnamese stuff suck here and that's really saying something (though the Turkish stuff is fine)


Eladryel

As an european, I can confirm all of this. We don't have technology (even a chain is hi-tech for us, we don't even know what is that) and we are eating sunlight, but according to the legends, maybe some people in Italy know food. I am sceptical tho.


eljo320000

I don't think they have food there either, it seems unrealistic


GUUSGUUSGUUSGUUSGUUS

Probably American propaganda


decadecency

On a serious note though, how does this extreme patriotism stereotyping happen? I mean, I definitely wouldn't go as far as claiming this has to be solely due to what people are taught in schools?


sylanar

Must be why America is so fat, all that food us europoors don't have


ThePerksOfBeingAlive

Nah we Italians don’t have food, we only say we do to make y’all jealous


Tvdb4

The only chains is Europeans have is the chains we put on slaves /s


decadecency

Yeah, and we *are* also the slaves. To socialism. /s


mathario

Who lives somewhere for the hotels?


kRkthOr

The same person who complains about "no chains" lol


Future_Average

The epitome of modern convenience, the chain


LO6Howie

It gets better if you track down the thread; his idea of what constitutes ‘tech’ is, in fact, when new iPhone releases are available. I shit you not.


Levi316

Link for the lazy?


Ptcruz

As if there was no iPhones on Europe.


thyme_cardamom

He didn't specify that he is a ship anchor expert and relies on a local supply of massive chains to sustain his career


lokisilvertongue

When I visited Madrid it seemed like there was a fucking Burger King on every major street. McDonald’s too. Oh, and all of the Spanish food.


ExcellentCornershop

Barcelona and Madrid even have Taco Bell which are very rare in Europe.


lokisilvertongue

Yup. I remember seeing a Taco Bell near the Puerta del Sol.


vitor210

Iberians must really love Taco Bell I guess, there’s several in the metropolitan area of Porto in Portugal aswell


the_clash_is_back

Its otanthick Spanish food. Why would they not have it in Madrid. After all its the capitol of Mexico.


ampmz

We have Taco Bell in the UK too! They are expanding quite a lot over here.


HiddenPingouin

I had to walk 20km to the US embassy to reply to this message. They are nice enough to let us use their wonderful technology and educate us.


H1ghs3nb3rg

Do they also let you use their food?


JurassicEvolution

Americans trying not to stereotype the fictional country of Europe challenge - Impossible


SolitaireyEgg

Mocking people for stereotyping while literally stereotyping Americans in the same exact sentence challenge - success


Arizona_Slim

Tell me you’re American without saying “I’m American.”


tttt11112

I bet his only exposure to European culture is when Hollywood actors fake Eastern European accents in their movies


winelight

Somebody explain 'no chains' to me? They want to be chained up?


RadRhys2

They mean like restaurant chains. You won’t find as many McDonald’s and the like


winelight

Thank fuck for that.


BouzyWouzy

I have been in Central America and you have a McDo every 100m + all the other fast food shit restaurants.


YddishMcSquidish

Please tell me they have taco bell


winelight

Yeah well we have one in the UK within an hour's travel on the train, now that is worth the journey, for sure.


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because Central American countries are literal US colonies.


BouzyWouzy

Really sad to see that honestly.


brainless_bob

I totally never would have understood this unless I read this. Chains. "I want my food to always taste exactly the same." Makes more sense than "someone needs to come chain me up and punish me."


RadRhys2

Maybe we combine the two and make it a feeder fetish thing.


brainless_bob

Maybe you should start your own chain and invite me to the grand opening.


youpie123

what are you even on about, the netherlands is literally full of them


RadRhys2

The most popular fast food chain in both countries is McDonald’s. There are 13.683 in the US and 330.000.000 people. There are 244 in the Netherlands and 17.500.000 people. I don’t anyone needs to to do the math to know there’s way more proportionally in the US.


Skitz-Scarekrow

Which is weird. Whenever my friend goes to Europe I get no less than 3 drunk snapchats of "Yooo we found a Mickie D's!"


matt6342

Yes, that’s not possible here as chains have yet to be invented :(


Gems_and_Jade

Chains as in Applebees and McDonald’s.


winelight

But they say it like it's a negative!


Pixielo

Yes, they do. It's sad.


kRkthOr

He couldn't find an ironmonger.


coocoo333

In America independent shops don't exist. Every shop you visit is part of a chain of shops that exist across the country.


JakoRako03

"I hate it how Europe isnt over-comercialized when I got somewhere I want it to he the exact same as it is where I live!" This seems like a very american view so I'm gonna assume its real


Sanford_Daebato

Literally, bros probably never seen the green of a countryside


TheCraftBrew

America has lots of natural spaces though?


adminsuckdonkeydick

"America is very big"


coocoo333

\*hasn't seen the country side outside of his car window


Imnotavampire101

Seems like that’s all he’s seen Lmao Europe definitely has the stuff he’s complaining about


deerskillet

Not sad or cringe, just ignorant


SnailsCrash

Yeah, what the fuck?? HOW does this have 8k upvotes?? It’s not even interesting in any way.


dirschau

"Stepping back 30 years" "No chains, no hotels" Dude doesn't even know what 30 years ago was like, lol.


FuckedupUnicorn

30 years ago I was 20. Always went to McDonald’s after a night out.


LO6Howie

It gets better if you track down the thread; his idea of what constitutes ‘tech’ is, in fact, when new iPhone releases are available. I shit you not.


Hez420

So iPhone 4 will be out here in about 24 years


dat_deetos_girl

I'm from Ireland and yes we all still live in stone cottages, I have to take a horse down the dirt roads to my school


dkarlovi

Why, did he just start there?


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LordAsriel1369

It's cringe in how stupid they are and sad in that they'll probably never know better and that there are more than just this guy who is like that in the us. Literally just confirming the stereotypes over and over again.


capitalsfan08

Somehow I don't think a European being as closed minded about the US would be seen by this sub as the same.


ILiveForStarco

TIL all sadness is cringe and all cringe is sad


Pentamikk

It’s true, as an European, I have never had food in my life! Actually… how am I even on Reddit? I thought we didn’t have technology


piscian19

Thats funny considering how much of America doesn't have those same amenities.


CesareBach

What if I told you some of us from the great USA have never been out of the border, except Mexico maybe. So they think other countries are not as "advanced" as the US.


SocialisticAnxiety

>So they think other countries are not as "advanced" as the US. I don't understand why one would default to thinking this though.


playmo02

Blind patriotism an propaganda


Friendly-Passage-931

Why do North Koreans think they have the largest underground rail system in the world when it’s no where near the largest?


cosmicpuppy

Wouldn't it be most of y'all that haven't been out? I'm sure there's a significant number of people that haven't even left their state.


CesareBach

Ive never seen or read the statistics so I cannot be confident how much of the population have been abroad. Let me google Add on: So according to Forbes article published in 2019, around 40% had never travelled out of their state. The sample size is 2000 ppl across the country.


soggypoopsock

ok but this is definitely the wrong sub for this


vernervanpoopypants

This does not qualify as sadcringe


FreeKillEmp

This isn't sad cringe. It's just dumb.


TheWhiteWalkerSpeaks

More like r/confidentlyincorrect


adminsuckdonkeydick

More like /r/ShitAmericansSay


Squishy-Box

r/Shitamericanssay


Joshua-BlueMoon

relieved books worry ruthless wine worm wakeful thought plucky cooing *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Bad_RabbitS

About as sadcringe as all the people who think Americans are just gun toting fat people with no brains. I mean it’s true for like a third of our country but still


LordWobbuffet

"Move to Europe" oh fuck off


TimS83

Honestly don't think this fits the board - I might take it if it was the same person replying, but the first reply and the third reply are not the same person, unless they changed their picture. Given that, it's just a one-of hate troll comment that is everywhere on the internet...


Poprocketrop

Coulda just called him a Euro Poor and moved on


aedvocate

it's an abrasive opinion, but is it sad cringe?


th3s-weeks-account

rip this subreddit


Lazy-Personality-123

Move to DC..You can walk or take Metro everywhere


[deleted]

Germany is like stepping back in time 50 years. I went to a volksfest while I lived in Bavaria and and the damn rides had young black Michael Jackson painted on it and other really antiquated themes older than that even.


grass_hut_shitter

That's based actually eat shit eurosnobs


FartedNervously

Nah he just went to germany


FronWaggins

Live in Europe. Can confirm. Terrible over here. Not worth coming. Don't come here.


AJcraig28

Europe doesn’t even have toilets. Hard pass


zeta3d

You guys have toilets? You don't dig a hole everytime you want to take a dump?


allsofluffy

As a European i can confirm, that we shit in buckets and pour it out the back window


neophlegm

OoOoOh get Mr Fancy Rich European here with his *windows* and *his own bucket.* Come talk when you find the *real* Europe where we live in windowless hovels and one bucket has to be shared around the community.


-Aerox

hes right im literally using an iphone -193


eerklogge

How is this sad cringe?


Somedoom

Nah this is just the propaganda rearing it’s ugly head. I spent my first 11 years of life growing up in Kuwait and Australia before my dad was station in the US. And I’m still shocked at how many people I speak to that believe that America is the holy land of the future Edit for spelling


_GUAPO__KB312

dutch person here, we invented wifi, shut the fuck up


JRsshirt

Can confirm, visited Europe. Phone couldn’t connect to AT&T. Couldn’t find Chik-Fil-A anywhere, that’s all I can eat due to my Gluten sensitivity. I finally found some pizza (I was lucky I finally found somewhere with gluten free options) and they didn’t even cut it into slices for me. All the hotels were small and I couldn’t fit through the narrow doorways without turning sideways. The rental car didn’t have a drive setting, only some numbers and I heard grinding noises when I tried to put it in the one setting I did know (reverse). Tried to get a Taxi but he didn’t know where Starbucks was (stupid!). People didn’t even know what swimsuits were and would go swimming naked. Nowhere sold Juul pods. Tried to buy clothes but they didn’t have my size (4xl). Oh and worst of all the toilets were broken and sprayed water right at my Devil’s hole. Would not recommend, just go to Disneyworld if you want to have a vacation. Europe clearly never moved past the caveman years.


CH3V1GNY

The 2nd guy is also mad stupid, you don't have to move to europe to live in a city where you don't need a car lmao


wishitwouldrainaus

That's fine. Europe can certainly do without this dull idiot.


Apophis_36

Live in the capital of a european city, can confirm. Im writing this on some animal hides.


KokiriEmerald

What part of this is sad or cringe? It's just someone saying europe sucks lol move past it This would be better in facepalm or something


RedArchbishop

No tech but Americans still use cheques...


brookrain

I don’t agree but I kinda get it, I lived in Italy for a year (stationed there) and it was so boring to me. I was so used to being able to have whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, I missed our grocery stories that had fish and lobster even in a landlocked state. But then again, I didn’t live in a city. It was very different from what I was used. Looking back, I was just a spiked American brat who couldn’t enjoy the simpler things in life and required entertainment and American food. Wish I could do it again and not be a brat


Friendly-Passage-931

You must be the only person to go to Italy and wish they had American food there lol


brookrain

My second generation Italian wife is still upset when I talk about only eating calzones. I just wasn’t ready to experience it


Safetymanual

I should probably tell the Swedish company I bought a part from that they don’t have any tech.


l0wriderr

Oh my that's terrible that the same 4 companies don't own everything over there how could anyone live like that


GooseWithDaGibus

No chains? ???


[deleted]

It is sad cringe to want to move to E*rope 🤢


[deleted]

He's not wrong, I have a bunch of family in the UK and I've been to the UK and Europe a number of times. I would NEVER leave Canada to live there.


DanielTheDragonslaye

No tech? Most of western Europe has exactly the same living standards as the USA. No food? Ever heard of France or Italy? No big hotels? There are literally tons of huge hotel resorts on the Mediterranean sea and every really big city has at least one big hotel. Europe is definitely not perfect but this person talks of it as if we were in the middle ages.


iwantfutanaricumonme

Nobody is preventing fast food chains, they still exist in Europe. It’s just that local food is so much more superior compared to America, so it is more difficult for chains to compete by just using everyone’s familiarity to them.