Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration

Re:Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration by jimmaswell on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @12:02PM (#17135226)

A few things that come to mind: lower COL, individual liberties, food culture, outstanding diversity of geography, easier to get around by car, no GDPR if you want to run a website.

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Re:Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration by oblio on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @12:20PM (#17135372)

You're casting a pretty wide net there, mister. The EU (if you want to just consider one "entity") is big enough to counter all those except for well, the GDPR :p

And regarding the food culture, you'd get many, many bewildered stares from my French and Italian colleagues with that statement :)

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Re:Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration by jimmaswell on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @12:47PM (#17135635)

Part of what I mean is you can easily find "authentic" Italian/whatever food in the US - it's the big "melting pot" or "salad bowl" or whatever you want to call it.

As far as I know taxes, especially on fuel, are almost always higher in the EU compared to the US.

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Re:Visualizing Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration by oblio on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:16PM (#17136549)

I doubt the average Italian would call the US version authentic :p

And this works both way, you can find US food (or Indian, or whatever) in Europe. It’s not the 1930’s anymore :)

Fuel is expensive but cars are smaller and generally much more fuel efficient. People move around just fine :)

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