Yes, our liberals look at Europe like their idol but very few of them our willing to trade the American standards of living with the European standards of living.
I had a German woman in the late 80’s that was visiting her American cousins express a little shock when we discussed showering and someone mentioned how they couldn’t go a day without one. She said “You take showers everyday?”
Now that’s not to say everyone there lives like that, but in THIS case, these people who had enough money to fly to America to visit, lived in an apartment building where they had wash up sinks and then they shared a shower with the building. She also found it a luxery to be able to take a soaking bath on a regular occassion.
Now a friend of mine whose husband was stationed in Germany told me that it wasn’t true, that she lived in Germany and she had a shower in her apartment. In another conversation a few months later she mentioned living on the base and I asked if he ever lived anywhere else while he was stationed there. The answer was no, I guess forgetting the conversation about how Republicans no nothing about Europe. She lived on a BASE!
I have not been there. I do not know for a fact, only what this German family said and maybe they lived in a poorer section of town. I just know they thought we had waaayyyy too much space for one little family. I mean her middle class cousins had a front yard AND a back yard and TWO STORIES ON THEIR HOUSE!
Beats trading with Kenya, which is where we'll be going if we don't make some changes.