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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The same way all the posters from other countries "Europe" "Asia" (could you be any more vague?!) hate generalizations, so do we.

For the most part, Americans love to romanticize Europe especially. Aren't you paying attention when we talk about how effortless French women are, how walkable the cities, how lovely and old all the villages are, so full of history.. The social democracies of Scandanavia, universal healthcare, no guns. I could go on and on. A lot of us (surprisingly) cannot emigrate to one of these countries. It is very very difficult for Americans.

So it just gets irritating when some yap who has the lovely fortune to choose to live here, in the good ol' USA, goes on and on about things back home. It's fine if you also are from Sweden and laud their education, but stop slamming ours. You get to be here. etc. You have a choice to go home.  And the worst part is the generalizations. Americans eat twinkies. No. Full Stop. We are all so different. [/quote][/quote]

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We were in Europe (specifically, the UK, France, and Italy) this summer with my mother who has mobility issues.  I can't think of many other places that are more miserable for a person who can't walk well.  Even using a wheelchair is treacherous.  Absolutely awful and not disability-friendly, at all.[/quote]

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