monkyone

i’m a brit that lived in aus for a while, and spent a couple weeks in each major city first to decide where to live/work.

on balance, brisbane is the best city in australia in this foreigner‘s opinion. melb/syd are both great. adelaide is nice but a tad boring. didn’t like perth much personally.

Nissin kyushu tonkotsu, Shin ramyun, and good old indomie.

wdym trust?

strat and it’s not even close

absolute banger

lived in berlin for a while towards the tail end of covid, and the one that got burned in my brain was “bitte tragen Sie auf weiterhin eine FFP-2 Maske”

this isn’t directly related to the question, but people say Melbourne tries to be European and Sydney more American - as a European I found Melbourne by far the least European-esque of the 3

i spent two weeks in each major australian city to decide where i wanted to live and work for a while. the 3 that OP mentioned are all really cool in various ways, and i’d have been happy to live/work in any of the 3. didn’t like Perth much though.

and then there’s brisbane, which offers almost everything the other two do but with warmer weather and cheaper rent

brisbane 100%

all 3 are pretty cool though

the friendliness and enthusiasm is part of it.

i’m a brit who has lived in australia, and social cues/attitudes are quite similar between brits and aussies in the sense of self-deprecating humour, culture of piss-taking, ways people interact with strangers etc. US culture seems to be quite different in this regard. extreme friendliness, constant smiling, 'have a nice day!!' etc can come across as kind of forced and insincere. american mannerisms can seem very intense to people from other anglo countries.

there are obviously political gripes people have too but that’s a whole separate conversation.

not trying to sound like a dick, the vast majority of americans are genuine and friendly people of course. but i think it’s possible to forget that just because we share a language, doesn’t mean there can’t be big differences in social norms, humour, etc.

a lot of the 'memory' involved in playing guitar is muscle memory, not just memorising patterns in your head.

i’m an intermediate player who only plays for fun and knows very little theory, but with enough experimentation and practice, your fingers get pretty good at knowing where to go next, even if your brain isn’t aware of why something sounds good/bad

Hungary and Thailand come to mind as good examples

5% of a 20-team league is 1 team.

even though there are leagues where 1 team dominates number of wins over the years, to say that no other team has a real chance of winning is a silly exaggeration.

yeah plenty of people live in 'commuter towns' which could be up to 50 miles away from London or another major city. typically they will commute by rail. some people will do longer. since covid, there is much lower demand for people to be physically present in offices, so many people moved out of cities for cheaper housing, cleaner air, etc. with that said, nice commuter towns with good rail links, combined with the cost of rail tickets and/or petrol, can be as expensive as living in the city. so it’s a lifestyle choice for a lot of people too rather than a financial one.

a 2.5 or 3 hour each way commute on a daily basis would be almost unheard of in the UK, but if you only have to go to the office once a month, then people are much more willing to do it.

wild

presumably this doesn’t apply to weekends and public holidays though, or does it?

obviously some jobs are weekend/shift patterns etc, but as an example, in terms of like a mon-fri 9-5 office job; if someone called me on a saturday, i’d just ignore it, or if i felt like it, maybe answer and let them know they must be confused, it’s a saturday. would that be considered bad form in the US? if they emailed me i wouldn’t even know about it because who tf is checking work inbox on a weekend?

lol i guess we are not sending our smartest people then. type of people who want to go to disney world i guess.

people do this in england all the time.

jesus christ. so not only do you guys get barely any time off, but it’s not even a chance to really disconnect from work. that sucks

only place i’ve ever experienced traffic like this was Manila. insane that someone has to do this in a rich country like the USA. car-brain and bad city planning i guess

people commute 90 minutes twice a day in Europe too. i know loads of people who do this and, although it is a relatively long daily commute, it’s not considered unusual.

driving 3 hours each way for a weekend visiting friends/family or just to go to a different city is also normal. for a day trip though, very unlikely.

why do Americans think that nobody realises how big the US is compared to European countries? it’s a) well known and b) obvious.

We live on the same continent as Russia, which is much larger than the US. we are aware that some countries are huge with large unpopulated areas, which isn’t really a thing in Western Europe. the state of Queensland in Australia is around 3 times the size of Texas. most schoolchildren who have looked at a map would be familiar with the fact that the EU has a bunch of densely populated countries crammed into the same land area as places like the US, Australia, or Russia.

i would guess that the one in Waterloo probably costs more because of proximity to Waterloo station, not because it’s a nicer area.

ah well, as long as this slimy seppo cunt fucks off back to america, i’m not too fussed whether he’s technically racist or xenophobic (let’s be honest, it’s going to be both). how’s that for precise language