[quote=spdrun]I’ve never owned a fucking SUV and if someone gave me one, I’d part it out with a chain saw and send them pictures.
Then take a trip to Prague on the money gained from EBay sales while laughing all the way.
And don’t confuse editorials in op-ed pages with the feelings of the average employee in a given country. People who I know in northern Europe are quite grateful NOT to be Americans.[/quote]
Have to second what spdrun says here. Nobody in my European family has ever expressed a desire to come to the US and live/work the way we do. As a matter of fact, they laugh when you even suggest it. OTOH, my DH has two brothers who are US citizens (one US-born, the other German-born), and both live and work in Germany. My mother only came here because she was following her boyfriend…and she had always wanted to go back, but being married to an American with American kids put an end to that idea. Many (most?) Europeans think that Americans are rather backward.
I have yet to meet a European who is envious of our lifestyle. It’s pretty much a given, at least in their minds, that their lifestyle is superior to ours.
