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Stockholm is truly a ‘cashless’ place..no need to change any money to krona here,just use a card for everything!
That is very,very different from the situation at home in Palermo.
What how remote of a place would you tolerate living in? It looks like place I’m going to is around 30000 people with a 300000 people city (the central urban area) nearby. The Kentucky coal fields to the east are the definition of misery, isolation, and desperation. The places to the south aren’t much better. Only to the north and west, there’s pockets of prosperity.
I’m in the process of buying an old carburetor for a project car, and it was manufactured by Hitachi. Then I drove past a building site, and there was this massive excavator on the site with giant Hitachi lettering on the back. What a wild product portfolio they have. You can buy a Hitachi carb, excavator, vibrator, mortar, A/C unit, elevator, and pretty much anything. There’s a lot of Japanese and I guess Korean companies too which are just massive and make everything under the sun. Yamaha being a good example too.
On the subreddit SubredditDrama there was a thread from some superhero comic subreddit where they were arguing about everything Europe. Somebody in the original thread and another person in hte SRD thread were saying that when people say Europe they mean the European Union, just like when people say America they mean the United States of America.
Does anybody really do that? I have never met anybody who said Europe instead of European union if they’re talking about the EU. And the America = USA thing doesn’t even seem like a good comparison, since when people talk about the continent they say North-America, or the America**s** if they’re talking about both of them.
The whole thing bothers me because I don’t like it when people make the EU and Europe as a continent to be the same thing. It seems gatekeepy towards the countries that are not in the EU/Schengen. Like they’re not good enough to be in Europe or whatever.