MarkKol

Real French people live in Ile-de-France.

Yes Distance from family is necessary for the healthiest relationship

Aren't you embarrassed or ashamed of yourself that you have to use drugs to socialize? This is you ⬇️

Unbelievable, self-admitted corruption. The most disgusting behavior this world has ever seen.

What a baffoon How much does a guy like that know about the nazis? The best guess is absolutely nothing. US Liberals with PhDs can't point to Europe on a map, never mind a white supermacist conservative.

In 2025 you won’t get another holocaust, you’ll get nuked. Maybe, if Israel prospers and advances, they’ll be haunted by guilt like the Germans did because of what they did to Palestine. How is Israel or Benjamin Netanyahu, any different from the nazis and hitler? Both of them are focusing on killing civilians. In case the Israelis don’t regret their actions decades from now, that will be a strong case against jews, a very strong one IMO. You’ll essentially prove that even in the aftermath of the disaster you caused, you still haven’t mustered the ability to feel empathy or regret.

Everyone and their mother is getting into some form of crypto/stock/gold trading, best of all, they all call it "Building a business". I would rather depend on Uber Eats food delivery than any form of trading. One guy like Trump can just come in, crash all the stocks, and suddenly you feel like you know nothing, because you don't. Go sell a product or service, instead. You don't need to be a millionaire, if you feel like do. You're falling for self-deception. Big money is self-deception because you rob yourself of experiences, connections, and life in pursuit of money you never needed.

What can we possibility do about all those dead people? Grieving about 30 million dead strangers is borderline impossible, not useful at all and overly sentimental. The Palestine issue is a much bigger one, those people are alive and suffering. So if you’re gonna spray paint graffiti on a government building about dying people, let it be that.

It’s not like I have to go anywhere—I landed a comfortable office job right out of high school. After three years of working, though, I’ve become increasingly disenchanted with this common way of life. It feels like I’m prioritizing comfort and money over a bigger adventure—one where money and comfort would be tighter by design. It’s not bad, per se, and it’s not out of desperation. But the alternative feels more worthwhile. Prioritizing money in your 20s feels wrong and soulless. My salary has doubled over the past three years, yet I haven’t become any happier or more fulfilled. I can see how someone might not understand my perspective, someone who hasn’t worked in a soulless corporate environment, someone in college, someone who hasn’t made much money yet, someone with kids. In my experience comfort slowly becomes this numbing agent that makes everything feel more boring and colorless.

Vienna, Eh, haven’t been there yet. We’ll see. Too many of my own kind living there. Wherever there are balkans there’s a place lacking in nuance and profundity. Looks good though. Perhaps it’s unattractive to me because it’s so familiar. Madrid and Rome look interesting, I’m not sure how survivable Spain is, they seem to have asymmetrically high housing prices for their incomes.

I found it unexpected that Berlin is cheaper compared to... pretty much every major city in Europe while at the same time being the biggest city in the EU.

I just came back from Milan like 2 weeks ago, absolutely loved it. ChatGPT gave me Amsterdam and Berlin based on my criteria so I just went with those considerations. Apparently Milan is more expensive than Berlin, shocking but true. At less than half the size. Thanks, wasn’t my doing, my country gives me a lot of my tax money back because I’m young and we’re kinda endangered here, meaning young people are leaving constantly. The opposite of the Netherlands actually.

Honestly, I can't stand the sound of their language. I understand every few words simply because of our Slavic similarities. But it sounds like a disabled person is trying to speak Serbian, even the city "Krakow" means something close to our word for squid legs, and Poznan is similar to our word "Poznam," which means "I know." I find it very unpleasant in a strange way. Imagine saying you live in a city called squid legs in your language... dozens of examples of this! I know they're doing pretty well.

I personally like that crowded, busy street noise/look. I even sleep better around it, I'm a social-nomad-hippie-hostel sleeper type of guy. This is one thing that kinda bothered me about Berlin, even though it won on paper in everything, it's super airy and spacious. Did you speak English mostly or Dutch? How would you rate it?

That's useful. How much did you pay for your rent?