Do most Europeans really live in walkable cities?

Here in America it's a Harley Davidson and getting really into grilling.

What do European men do when they go through a midlife crisis? But an Alfa and bake? Get really into trains?

In recent weeks, this question has been very contentious on American social media, with 3 cities (Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York) nearly always making the list, but the fourth being hotly debated over, between cities like San Francisco, Miami, Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta. So, if you had to choose, what would the big 4 cities in your country be? This is also not decided purely on population, but also culture, economy, and general influence/clout.

What was the biggest culture shock during your visit that you saw?

Hi everyone!

I started a project where I watch one series from each country in Europe. I’ve already done:

France: La Forêt

Spain: La Casa de Papel

Next up: Gloria from Portugal

I’d love to hear what show you think best represents your country (or is just a really good one to watch). Ideally something available with English subtitles.

What is the most European country, that is not actually a European country?

Every country has those invisible rules that locals just know but outsiders? Not so much. An unwritten social rule in your country that tourists or expats always seem to get wrong.

Which country comes to your mind

Say you're mid 30s and have to move to another European country for work, which countries did you find making friends to be on easy or hard mode?

Let's assume you don't speak the language of your new home.

I'm from Spain and I'd say: how late we apparently eat. I'm used to having lunch at 14-15h and dinner at 21-22h, sometimes later if I don't have to wake up early the following day. Every single time I travel to another european country and I have to eat dinner at like 19:30 or earlier my stomach gets so confused, because that's usually the time I'm eating merienda (a snack before dinner time). It's not easy to adapt!

I think in Portugal they also have dinner at 21h or so, shout out to my Iberian siblings :D

Tell me how your country differentiates from others, I'm curious!

Poland? Albanian?

What prompted my question were some discussions about religion which I had with people living in much more secular Western Europe (as a Polish atheist). While spirituality, whatever that is ;), generally speaking is always fun to discuss with a glass of wine in hand, social elements and the influence of the church, especially in smaller towns or provinces in my country, is awfully difficult to explain – not that I understand it fully either lol, but the church having a pretty much monopoly there, being the judge and jury of everyday life and the major ultra-conservative political force binding those communities, is very difficult to explain, also for historical reasons.

What are the things that you find difficult to discuss when it comes to life in your countries? ;-)

I went to the US in 2014. We landed in San Francisco and had to rent a car. We thought: "we're in america, let's rent a big car" So we rented a "big" car. Then we joined the I101 and we were the smallest car on the road... So with our redefined car we went to the Golden Gate Bridge but we were hungry. So we stopped at a diner. My brother ordered a burger and a small 7up. He got a liter of 7up. He wasn't even halfway and the waitress came to ask if he'd like a free refill (!). To quantify the bigness would be an insult of the bigly bigness that is american lifestyle. Certainly a shock for me.

What name is common in your country but not found anywhere else?

1.95583 is the conversion rate from Deutsche Mark to Euro, which I and many other people in Germany still remember from when we switched to Euro in 2002.

What are numbers, that most people in your country know for any odd reason?

Growing up in UK, one of the great pleasures of baking a cake with my mum was licking the spoon/mixing bowl after the cake was in the oven. However now I have my own daughter and my Italian wife is horrified as it has raw eggs in it and she has forbidden me from giving her the mixing spoon. Is this a thing in your countries as well?

In Belgium for instance, everyone knows there are nuclear bombs at the Kleine Brogel airbase, but it's still officially a secret.

Wat is something about your country you thought was normal until you visited several other countries and saw that it isn't widespread?

Back when I was in high school, basically everyone had iphones. It was really only the techky kids who were more interested in specs that had androids. The exception was the international kids (mostly from Germany, Italy and Spain). A good chunk of them had android phones (maybe like 50%). And I don't think that it was really because of price because most of these kids came from pretty well off families as it costs like 30k to do an exchange.

But digging into the numbers (source), it seems like it seems to be the case that android is more popular in Europe than NA. NA is about 55% to 45%, whereas Europe is about 70 to 30. Sure there are some countries that aren't doing too well in Europe but even in the rich European countries like Germany and France, there are a lot more androids than iphones. The only countries I saw with more iphones than androids were the UK and Norway (though there could be others though as I didn't check every country).

So is there any particular reason for these differences?

I am curious, I want to know

One of the trends that is happening, as a recent Food Theory YouTube video drop, is that Gen Z is rejecting alcohol and so consumption is much much lower than for older generations.

But I’m wondering: is this true in Europe? I’m coming from a United States background, where alcohol is more heavily regulated and attitudes about its consumption have been shaped by the previous history of things like Prohibition. So the decline doesn’t feel like it’s that surprising to me.

But I’m curious about the situation in Europe. Does the decline hold true there as well? And does it surprise you, or do you have any ideas as to what may be factoring into the decline of it is even declining? I understand that the answers will vary from country to country because it’s not a monolith. I’m interested to hear perspectives all over.

Which country do you feel culturally the closest to?

Which person will make your country going into mourning that isn't a monarch (so forced mourning ) .

Here in the uk it'd be David Attenborough I think we'd probs have a yearly month long holiday

What is it?

I saw an AITA about a woman and her daughter very upset with her husband/stepdad because he would walk out of the shower naked. They were genuinely disgusted by his nudity. The comments tore this man apart saying he was a groomer and a pervert. It popped into my head that some friends of mine have European parents and they said it was a common thing in the home to be nude if you're leaving the shower or too hot etc. They just don't see anything sexual about nudity alone. So the AITA got me thinking about how common it actually is. I personally think it's not a big deal, don't like it don't look sort of thing, but would like to know what others think/if it's common elsewhere to be in nude around family etc.