It really depends on where I am. Winter in a city sucks. Winter in the mountains is awesome. Summer in Phoenix sucks. Summer on the Albanian Riviera is awesome.

Florida beaches have mosquitos too. And sand fleas. It doesn’t seem to stop women from wearing bikinis.

I lived in Florida for 20+ years. The beach is wildly overrated. Unless you surf or dive (and FL sucks for surfing), there’s literally nothing to do except walk and sit on sand. Though I will say this: if you’re allowed to have a bonfire on the beach at night, it becomes infinitely more fun. But that’s pretty much banned in FL.

So yeah, I will opt for the forest almost every time.

There is no law that says women can’t wear bikinis in the forest.

‘Death in the City of Light’ by David King. It’s a true crime story about a serial killer in Nazi occupied Paris. Dude would trick Jews into thinking he was smuggling them out, then kill them. Truly diabolical.

Then why you didn’t ask if the kid in my previous comment was also named Labron?

Correct. Just like Orlová is without a doubt worse than San Diego, because it’s an apples to oranges comparison.

New Prague is a small town in Minnesota with less than 10k people and has only been around for 150 years, and OP is comparing it with a city of almost a million and a half that has been around for over 700 years. It’s like watching Lebron James dunk on some middle school kid at the park and then mocking the kid for sucking at basketball.

What a stupid post. Each one of those European cities has areas that look just as bad, if not worse, than the cherry picked images of their American counterparts.

America fucking sucks right now, but not because the worst parts of our cities don’t look like the best parts of European cities. This is some low effort bullshit.

You may be shocked at the number of ethnic enclaves in the US.

I don’t know, but it just doesn’t roll off the tongue the way “cold turkey” does.

“Quitting cold turkey” - I never actually thought about this one, but apparently it’s directly related to addiction (which seems kind of obvious now that I do think about it). When you quit an addiction abruptly, you sometimes get that cold goosebump skin like a cold turkey.

The Wikipedia entry on that one is a fun read. I’ve heard most of these possible origins before, but nobody is actually sure of the true origin of the phrase. It’s kind of frustrating, but also pretty neat that we still use a phrase long after we forgot where it came from.

“Bless your heart” is such a sneaky Southern saying.

Interesting. I always thought it was because the rain was so heavy it drove all the strays to seek shelter, so people noticed a lot more cats and dogs in front of their homes. I think a grade school teacher told me that when I was a kid. I like the dead animal version better.

I lived there for a year and am moving there permanently in a couple of months. Albania is such an underrated country in so many ways. It has its problems, but man, it is a bajillion times better than living in the US.

Albania.

Moving abroad (I’m American). It was something I’d been planning for a few years anyway, and I’m super glad I got the ball rolling when I did. I’ve lived abroad before and loved it, and plan to make it permanent this time, which is a little intimidating, but also exciting.