40 Normalized Things In Europe That Are Unknown In The US, According To The Internet

If anyone tells you how difficult Universal Health Care is to do, remind them that only 35/36 of the largest economies can make it work.

Should be this way everywhere, so no one's surprised by the full cost. I know what is taxable and how much tax where I live, but not where I travel.

The US never outgrew the original puritans.

That is soo behind...

SO sensible and completely logical. Also, meters, kilometers, degrees Celcius. It is just plain stupid that the US clings to imperial when nearly all the rest of the world is on metric!

What is weird is naming a room without a bath, a bathroom. That's not standard in Europe.

Safe public transportation!

Tips in the USA have gotten way out of hand. Even if you are picking up carry out, many places still expect you to tip.

Portland, Oregon, Boston Massachusetts, New York City. There are a few who have it figured out. The rest of the country is living in the dark ages if Mid 20th century car centered life.

I'm pretty sure anyone taking an ambulance ride has at least one thing to be worried about

We can send money from our banks via Zelle.

Cashiers in the US stand all day? I had no idea. What do the trade unions have to say about this?

Not everywhere.

UK NHS worker. I get 30 paid annual leave days (when I started it was 20, but you get additional days added depending on years of service). Plus bank holidays-christmas, boxing day, new years day, spring and summer Bank Holidays, 2 days at Easter. If I'm on call during a Bank Holiday, I get a day in lieu. Sick leave-6 months at full pay, 6 months at half pay, then onto statutory sick pay. Discretionary compassionate/family leave (if someone suddenly drops dead, family crisis etc, at the discretion of your line manager). There's a lot of research showing that shorter working weeks are actually more efficient and productive. Then there's maternity leave (a year) and paternity leave, and also adoption leave (if you adopt, it's considered similar to maternity leave)

The issue isn’t the US’s military budget, although this is higher than is typical in Europe. The issue is that US government is hamstrung by ‘conservatives’ who are simply misogynists who won’t recognise that maternity leave is hugely beneficial for mother and child, and that supporting mothers results in better long-term economic outcomes.

I live in Portland, Oregon and haven't driven a car in almost 20 years. I have a dedicated shopping bike I use one a week and all winter. It's the bike with fenders. I can carry two shopping bags home at a time and that's how I control my spending.

Many people in the USA take their own bags to the grocery store also.

In Canada, where I live, plastic bags no longer exist. You must bring your own bags.

Your own bags are required in my state. No plastic allowed.

I've been using my own bags at the grocery store for nearly twenty years. It's not as common as it should be, but it's not unheard of, either.

We do this in California. By law stores have to charge you for plastic bags to discourage use. I’d be fine if they got rid of them completely.

The paper bags are just as bad. Plus, most places charge for them now. They're just another way for businesses to make a profit off of you, while making garbage that our broken recycling system can't and won't handle.

I live in New Jersey. Plastic bags are now outlawed. My family takes a bunch of old paper bags we have in the home along with one reusable cloth one to the supermarket.

In Belgium there are no more free shopping bags, however big or small. But sometimes you get good, reusable ones with promotions and stuff, I have a collection in my car from all sorts of sizes and shops.

Especially since stores now charge per bag But the bags are much sturdier than in the past. You can reuse them. And I can get a LOT more than '2 cans of milk' in them. We have jugs of milk over here. 1\2 gallon and 1 gallon.

You buy milk in cans?

Plastic bags are illegal in some US states.

City where I live (U.S.A.) banned plastic bags years ago.

I love using my own bags....especially the insulated ones for frozen and refrigerated items!

I've been taking my own bags to the grocery store since 1997!

I've got a shopping trolley, it can carry a case of bottled ale and 6 bottles of wine, sorted.

I lived in Austin, Texas and we take our own grocery bags shopping. Been doing that for years.

I have been using cloth shopping bags for many, many years. When I did use plastic bags, it was because of “save the trees” action that was going on, I found it a good idea! Recycle everything became the popular thing. I used the plastic bags to line my small kitchen can(not anymore). The trash company began to give us cans meant just for yard waste(including meat bones, food scraps and such) My small kitchen can now only gets plastic wrappers, etc. I recycle everything I can. If it is not trash or “recycle “, I take it to a charity in hope of someone else being able to use it.

those US plastic bags make good trash can bags. just don't over fill

Cans?

This is true. It was easy to stop people using them. They made people PAY for those plastic bags. So we started to use cloth bags just like my grandmother did few decades ago. I still use her old bags and those are my favourites :)

Just about every person I know in the US takes their own shopping bags to the store, as many states have banned plastic bags.

This must be an old list. It's pretty standard to take your own bags where I live

This is becoming a law here in my area. You can still get plastic bags, but must pay extra for them. We're slowly switching to reusable bags.

We used to have large firm paper bags that were recyclable. Then we were told to switch to plastic to save the environment. (Obviously didn't work out to well.)

I'm an American. Our household does use the reusable grocery bags, but we don't have enough of them to always cover our full grocery store trips, so we usually end up with at least a few plastic ones every trip, but that's okay for us, cuz we have several small trashcans that those bags are perfectly sized for.

Plastic bags are almost completely outlawed here in the US. We all bring our own bags now.