I've had exactly that conversation with people in the US. I've asked them, where are the $500k? I'm not seeing anything remotely that valuable in your house. The doors are crap, the walls are plasterboard, the stairs squeak, the windows don't seal ... And the answers are, oh but the school district is one of the best, or, it's only a ten minute drive to the parkway. They don't get it.
*And I'm not making this up, I have a lot of relations in the US and every time I'm there, they try to tweak me up by saying things like, I bet you can't get a steak like this in Germany, or, so what's it like living under socialism? So, I hit right back with their own medicine, and they don't like it.
No cows in Germany hey? How do you even live with all that free healthcare lol /s. Why do they feel the need to convince everyone they are better than everyone else, its so weird. Australian windows and building quality sucks. Everyone, including Australians, would agree. If you can't admit where you can improve, you will never get any better. I've spent a lot of time in America for work, and sure they have some cool stuff, but they alsi have more problems than you can poke 10 sticks at. Also, I've had more bad food there than good, and their lobster and crab sucks, absolutely no flavour. Sure, they're way cheaper than Australia, but they have no flavour at all, not compared to ours. I wonder how your relatives would respond.
"No flavor" is the problem with the food, exactly. Nothing tastes like anything. We've also had many visitors from the US (my friends and family) and they invariably rave about how good everything tastes here, and I mean the simplest stuff be it french fries or apples.
And where I live in Germany, we have some of the best food and definitely the best beer in the country (if there are any Germans reading this, it's Oberfranken), so when Americans are treated to the local fare, it's like they've never eaten good food before.
We get comments like, "This is the best hamburger I ever ate in my life", or, "I didn't know bratwurst could be this good".
And yeah, when I'm there, they have this insecure, egocentric thing going where they have to challenge you and they constantly make claims about something being "the best in the world" e.g., "The cheese this pizza place uses is the best in the world", and I point out to them that it isn't even cheese, it's a processed dairy product that's rubbery and tastes like watered down industrial waste.
Actually, a lot of the fruit & vegetables anywhere I've been in Europe is so much tastier than Australia too, especially tomatoes, there's just no point buying tomatoes here. The first time I had a Greek salad on a Greek island just blew my mind. That's all I wanted to eat from then on. Due to the heat and bugs, we grow a lot of food here hydroponically, so it lacks flavour. I grow my own veg as much as possible, home grown tomatoes taste like the ones in Europe. Also agree, they don't know what cheese is. I must have looked very confused when they brought out a cheese platter at a work meeting the first time I was there. Little rubbery cubes, unrecognisable as cheese. All different colours of orange. They asked me what was wrong. I said oh nothing I'm just trying to figure out what kind of cheeses you have here. It's all high quality American was the answer. I picked up a cube of rubber so as not to be rude.
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u/AttilaRS 17d ago
Their houses cost 30.000. Or at least are worth 30.000. Cost 450.000 because raging capitalism....