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Lol, you also have to pay there in several countriesEhh, you don’t need to, McDonald is public toilet
Lol, you also have to pay there in several countriesEhh, you don’t need to, McDonald is public toilet
I meant in Belgium, at least from last time I was thereLol, you also have to pay there in several countries
We have ihop here in B-townI'm going on a trip to Miami for a few days (leaving tomorrow). Any recommendations for food and shopping? My hotel is basically a 20 minute walk from whatever the main strip is.
I also want to try some American fast food places like iHop, Shake Shack, etc.
I know, that was my point. If we are looking at a country from a tourist perspective, Japan is amazing. Love it. But if I wanted to live there, the senseless bureaucracy, blatant racism and unfavourable funding for infrastructure outside of big cities would make me hate it just as much.
Maybe I reacted a bit too harshly because you showed some love for the infrastructure of Qatar...which was built on the backs of many unpaid or badly paid workers and where they like to hide the numbers of deaths in construction.
I hate the whole world... no hate towards you or what you do, brother. I'm happy for you, let it be known.
An old lady, sitting inside the toilet for 8 hours smelling the piss and shit.. and collecting 50 cent coins.. cmonnnn
it has shit internal building internet coverage, no one bothers to install IBS/DAS for indoors. Hotels have poo poo internet. While this can happen elsewhere, nowhere in Riyadh/Manama have I ever found myself without usable internet as in brussels, fucking hotel right next to EU commission.
Even in big malls in Germany that was the case. Netherlands was way ahead of the curve in comparison of the other two.
We have ihop here in B-town
It's more of a mentality problem than a monetary one. There's a lot of money going around actually.Europe are falling behind because of money.
Traditions die hard, we used to call them les dames pipi
Agreed here.
Can't comment here, but knowing the two different countries I trust this to be true. Assuming you speak about north/northwest Germany and not the southeast.
It was rich region in south-west.
btw seeing the reaction of forum to these news just shows how much europe is becoming like balkans, get very defensive to criticism. The more I see Asia/North America the more i think Europe is just one huge amusement park for american/middle east/asian tourists.
Nope, bureaucracy. When it works it works, when it doesn’t it hits hard.Europe are falling behind because of money.
The whole of liberal, Western Europe is almost exclusively the only countries in the world with broad infrastructures of welfare, and almost the only ones to abide by the Human Rights Conventions - meaning you pay a whole lot to non-contributors for a lot of nothing.
Oil states have the luxury of having oil money and little to no migration, the latter meaning a net loss of finances.
The West doesn’t have that.
TrueI find it wholeheartedly hilarious for a Balkanite to laugh and point fingers at the infrastructures of other countries, but it is what it is.
I find it wholeheartedly hilarious for a Balkanite to laugh and point fingers at the infrastructures of other countries, but it is what it is.
The whole of liberal, Western Europe is almost exclusively the only countries in the world with broad infrastructures of welfare, and almost the only ones to abide by the Human Rights Conventions - meaning you pay a whole lot to (a lot of) non-contributors for a lot of nothing.
Oil states have the luxury of having oil money and little to no migration, the latter meaning a net loss of finances.
The West doesn’t have that.
I find it wholeheartedly hilarious for a Balkanite to laugh and point fingers at the infrastructures of other countries, but it is what it is.
So if someone is from XYZ place he can't point out where something is clearly wrong?
Also you can tell how defensive people get when you point out EU short-comings.
"Oil states have the luxury of having oil money and little to no migration, the latter meaning a net loss of finances."
what does this mean?
Why are you guys so defensive and introduce new comparing points as if that was my intention at all.Heralding the Oil states as some significant place to live compared to the western nations (because you saw a woman taking care of the toilets) is such a reductive, unsound conclusion when the two have widely different challenges in terms of the people living there. If you took away the general income from oil money (which I know, is a very hypothetical scenario) you'd literally have some of the worst places to live on earth.
I was stating that the western countries use a lot of their annual BNP to take care of the worst-off people within their borders (such as welfare), which could've been used to raise the general standard of living or, I dunno', modernize toilet facilities or infrastructure.
The Oil states don't do that or don't have to do that, and instead have very poor conditions for most of their labor force, bordering on slavery-like for some. What you see what you praise Riyadh or Dubai is what you see as a relatively rich foreigner staying in a good hotel, not how it is for the whole of the population.
Pointing to migrants or immigrants exclusively probably was more distracting from the broader point than intended.