Ooops!
I didn't mean to hijack the thread. Many apologies for that, however, I felt it necessary in my original post to point out how you guys in the US sometimes earn a bad reputation by the ignorance of a few. I didn't realise that my point would get backed up further in the thread :laugh:
Just to expel a few myths...
Not all of us, by a long stretch, use the Euro. I will also point out that the Euro has cents not pence :laugh: (sorry to be a pedant)
Despite popular belief many people in Europe can afford to drive Golf GTD/GTI's (we invented them - 'them' being GTIs and GTDs, infact we invented cars) :fighting0030:
Most of "us" can afford to eat at least one meal a day (more if we find some road kill) :laugh:
Us "Europeans", as this thread has labeled us, don't like being labeled as "Europeans". Whilst we (some of us) are proud to be part of Europe each of the Nations within Europe is exactly that, it's own Country and has it's own parliament, taxation laws, culture and identity. You will find vast differences across each Nation within Europe (that is the charm of Europe). Dare I even point out that there are quite a number of countries within Europe that have a higher nominal GDP per capita than the US? (Perhaps I should not go down that path :yikes
as well as others with figures much less
Lastly, thanks for the laughs this thread has brought (some laughs can be attributed to well placed humour, some laughs to sheer amazement at lack of understanding that some people have).