deskpro2k3 said:
Slimebeast said:
Two football players in my favorite team in my hown city here in Sweden recently announced that they will move to the USA and play for soccer teams there (in the league just below the MLS). They both said that one of the reasons was that they "like the American lifestyle". This got me thinking, what do they mean?
These football players in question aren't any stars here or anything, just mediocre players in a top team in our second league and life in the American second league won't exactly mean life in luxury and fame, so it's certainly not the "football life" itself over there that draws these guys.
What is the American lifestyle compared to a Western European lifestyle in concrete terms? Could you give examples of how your life would be different? Or is it more of a dream image many foreigners have based on the USA as a cultural superpower with the dominance of Hollywood films, pop music, glorious American history with all the cool wars America has participated in and so on?
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Not everywhere in the USA is the same, so it depends on which state they're going live in.
Take this from a New Yorker. NY, and CA are the only places with sane people, and a lot of foreigners.
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New York I think is one of those places where a European has really a romanticized picture of how life is. It's like, we think you're out and having fun pretty much all the time. Really social. Parties. Fun. Attention. Love.
When you meet your friends, doesn't it take like hours to even get there? I mean, for me when I live in a city with over 1 million people (there's one in Sweden) it matters where your friends live geographically. If it's too far, the likelyhood of phycsically meating gos drastically down.
