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It all started when someone called Peer Richelsen had a question about why more Americans don’t come to live in Europe.
ok serious question, what keeps the average American (that can afford it) from moving to Europe?
please enlighten me
— Peer Richelsen
(@peer_rich) June 25, 2022
And it prompted no end of interesting and enlightening responses, but one in particular grabbed people’s attention.
It’s an American chap called Saagar Enjeti – @esaagar on Twitter – who has a podcast or two among other things and, well, look.
Europe is substantially poorer, more racist, less dynamic, and MUCH less free than the US
Food is bland, coffee tastes like shit, the weather is mostly awful, their primary cultural export is tourism, and they have less say in the affairs of the world https://t.co/zOrZI15O1P
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) June 27, 2022
And it prompted no end of very funny (and occasionally furious) comebacks. Here are 17 of the best.
1.
sidestepping the parts of this post that reveal not traveling far past airports, freedom how? American legal protections on speech are cool, but don’t protect your employment, nor boycotts on foreign entities now. our personal vices get more limited by the day, too https://t.co/rPAkmMtOrf
— The Baller of the First Sin (@ByYourLogic) June 27, 2022
2.
yes, can’t think of any major US freedoms which have literally just been removed https://t.co/nhtniRYUz2
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) June 28, 2022
3.
Sorry I don't speak school shooting https://t.co/aCF7BfrzE6
— Ojólogo Oook 🥄🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@Eodun) June 27, 2022
4.
Oh dude. Such a deep burn. That hurt a lot. I may have to go to hospital… for free.https://t.co/O5XO91d9hH
— Der Kraut (@Der_Parrot) June 28, 2022
5.
you can drink on the street, smoke in bars, graffiti the walls, vote for actual leftists, be within an hour's flight of 100s of historically significant places, get paid parental leave, free health care, daycare, and education, all without wondering when you're going to get shot. https://t.co/QGxrm9a2eu
— Ryan Ruby (@_ryanruby_) June 27, 2022
6.
BREAKING: Liz Truss has announced that the UK will temporarily rejoin the EU to more effectively dunk on this guy. https://t.co/TASL1aZoNE
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) June 28, 2022
7.
"Food is bland" in Europe is genuinely the worst food take I have ever seen. https://t.co/S9OpoZ6PSL
— Thomas Lecaque (@tlecaque) June 27, 2022
8.
This is the bloke who steps straight off the gondola into the arms of the first guy with a piano accordion and winds up paying €60 for tomato spaghetti https://t.co/k6b6NT43xx
— elle hardy (@ellehardy) June 27, 2022
9.
Also Europeans all generalise. https://t.co/ZpmuNofDTD
— Alan Beattie (@alanbeattie) June 27, 2022
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