“Still Illegal In Most European Countries”: 30 Things That Are Only Normal In The USA

Uhm Europe stetches from the North Pole (Svalbard) to Mediterranean; it has desserts, glaciers, etc.

And that's the ones with just 2 feet !

Yeah, same as Australia

That’s the point, they’re saying the difference is that America is so large and contains so many different biomes, when European countries tend to be small and only contain one or two biomes. In a country that spans a whole continent like USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, or Russia, you can experience extremely different natural environments without actually leaving your country which isn’t possible in many places around the world that have smaller country sizes like west Europe

There is always someone who has to knock the US park services. The point isn’t that we have national parks. It’s that scale. 40% of the US is public use land. The largest park system in my state takes about 2 hours at 75mph to drive through. It’s not even close to the top 10. Our national parks are huge, numerous and accessible. Only 8% of England, for instance is public use land and a lot of it isn’t accessible. We have a single park roughly 40% of the size of England. I’m not a wrapped in the flag defender of all things USA but our national parks system is amazing.

UK National Parks are full of pubs, which is nice :)

The US has 429 national Park sites although just 63 have the national park designation in their names. Also, there are almost 7,000 state parks in the US.

The same in Australia. We are always forgotten about by Americans in these yanks Vs everybody else articles. 🙄

That's nice. The US has national parks that are larger than the entire United Kingdom.

If i am ever in Europe I will be sure to check those out. However, jus because Europe also has them, does that really takee away from Americas? I hhave been to a lot of them here in the US and they are so amazing.

No one said Europe doesn't have national parks. But the entire concept of national parks did originate in the US, followed shortly by Australia. And given the vast geography of the US, that they're also larger in scale.

And that's fine, cool....but buuuut, it is still not nearly as vast as the United States. Hate all you want, it's is a fact. You still have beautiful places, I mean Ireland is incredibly beautiful.

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Do you David? Do you have national parks in Europe? Well thank you for letting us know.

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I’m not sure what shutdown you’re referring to, but during the pandemic, European countries, and almost all other countries in the world, had the same shutdown measures than America, the main difference being how people reacted to the shutdown.

True, but with the growth of these cities, and I live in one, the comfy Euro-Centric old parts become proportionally smaller and smaller. The Sprawl grows..

Berkeley! Livedt here without a car for 35 years

New York is the opposite of unwalkable. It's undrivable. One thing you see there all the time- there's a green light but past the traffic light it's backed up. In a normal city with normal, sane drivers, they wait until traffic starts moving and there's room to get through the intersection so they don't clog it up when the opposite direction gets their green. But New Yorkers just go anyway and clog the intersection. So of course, when the opposite light goes green, the cars can't go because the intersection is blocked. They wait until it's finally clear, which happens about 10 seconds before the light turns red. So they go and clog the intersection because they had to wait. Because the intersection is clogged. This same cycle goes on and on for hours, with everyone honking as if that will magically clear the cars. You have to be out of your mind to want a car in that city.

That and are expensive to park in, so everyone does bus/subway/taxi

Chicago is very walkable. Now I live in the dreaded suburbs.

I'd find it difficult to shop for a family of 4 adults and 3 pets without a car and a round trip of eight miles.

I had a near-fatal asthma attack a few years ago here in Canada. I was rushed into emergency where I immediately had one nurse putting in an IV and another doing a blood gas in the other arm. Then someone took me for a chest x-ray. They gave me IV meds and after a half hour and they weren't working I was rushed to intensive care and immediately put on a CPAP machine, with another nurse giving me steroids. I had my own nurse, who was just there to take care of me, and sat outside my room. When I was better I had someone come take me for a short walk. Bang bang bang, it was all incredibly fast, efficient, and effective. If I'd been in the best private hospital in the US I don't know how the treatment could have been better. I was there for three days; take a wild guess how much my bill was. Our health system has serious problems, no doubt, but when you really need help it's truly amazing to see it in action.

What I find sad is using the NHS as an example when in fact it's one of the worst healthcare systems in Western Europe. Once you get used to the way it works in other countries and look back on it, some of the things you accept about the NHS, like stupidly-long waiting lists and lack of continuity of care across medical disciplines start lo look positively primitive.

Unusually for me, I was in hospital twice in the past two years (two fairly freak occurrences). Overnight for the first one, and three day stay for the second. I couldn't fault the care I received.

I do wish we (USA) had some form of universal health care. But I really doubt your statement that everyone is treated the same regardless of wealth (or influence). That just doesn't clock in any country. Hypothetically, if two people need to see a doctor and they are booked up, and one of those people is Joe Average and one is the prime minister or the rich guy that donated a wing on a building - the rich one is likely to be seen first. I'm not singling out the UK for that. I believe that to be true in the US or pretty much anywhere.

I can generally see any of my doctors in the US the same day. I like what we have here and want to keep it.

And the wealthy are now opting out of with concierge medical care becoming widespread now. Everyone hates the medicare insurance processing system. Only the wealthy can avoid it.

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Except the rich can afford private insurance so that they get treated faster, while you wait 3 months to see a specialist.

Insurance companies not qualified to make healthcare decisions are deciding if you get coverage for your leukaemia child's bone marrow transplant, it's an abomination of a system.

Yes, doctors have to take out $$$$ in liability insurance just for law suits for the 'serial sue' Americans

Lack of affordable healthcare is worse. At least I can buy a bulletproof vest, yet can't afford a major illness.