Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "Thoughts On The USA After One Month In Italy 🇮🇹" video.

  1. I traveled Europe 30 years ago when I was in the military. Everywhere except Paris and Belgrade (Yugoslavia just after the wall came down) was nice. I avoid cities here in the US, preferring the wide open spaces and forests between Michigan and Wyoming. It really depends on where you go as to what you will get. You won't be walking to the store from my house, unless you like walking a marathon, and you won't be doing that from November to May. A vehicle is required, not because something was planned that way, but because of the vast distances. I put 4000 miles on my truck between 24 August and September 24, I do that often. I made another 2500 mile round trip earlier in July. I like that drive, it takes me 14 hours, but its enjoyable when I start in the early morning when the sun comes up about 0530, and I get to my destination in the evening. Next year I will probably use my dashcam to make a video of the entire run. If you are used to and do not like big city life in the US, then the small towns in Europe and out here in the states most people don't know exist are for you. Don't expect to have lots of free stuff handed to you out here in the crimson 'flyover' places, but that means you won't see people camped on the streets, shootinup, and doing all the other things you see in the big crime infested cities. Taking a train in Europe works great, I used them when I was over there, the distances are much shorter than the US. Taking a train to get from my home to my destination earlier this year, is a five day ordeal of waiting around for the train to pick people up, going the wrong way so you can get a connection, and waiting around for the next one to come in tomorrow. Same with a bus, if you have several days you can just ride around then it should be lots of fun. Hollywood doesn't show the part of the USA I am from and live in, they show a caricature of it at times, where everyone is portrayed as none too bright and marrying their sister. Then they make the cities look far better than they actually are, not all like the cesspools they have been turned into. Yeah, the movies are what people overseas think its like in the US. When I was in Dubai in 1991 the question I was asked most often was if I was from LA or NYC. I told them I was from a place roughly 1500 miles from both of them called Nebraska. They had never heard of it, but I knew quite a lot about their country. Abu Dhabi was absolutely beautiful, Dubai was kinda small and just starting on the big building project in 1991. Sharja was a nice quaint little place with wonderful people.
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