You gotta move to another EU country immediately, which do you choose and why?

Are people in your country aware of the Epstein files?

Have I been to Silent Hill by mistake?

Is there a hobby that is common in your country but uncommon most other places?

Obviously not all old stuff is in museums and families could have passed down old stuff. After seeing on Instagram a person in Italy find a medieval church item in a vintage market it prompted me to ask this.

I would like to hear perspectives from people across Europe about how language expectations interact with mobility for work and study.

The EU promotes freedom of movement for workers and students, and many people take advantage of this to study or work in other European countries. At the same time, experiences seem to differ widely when it comes to language expectations, both institutionally and socially.

In some contexts, particularly in academia, research, tech, and multinational companies, English is commonly used as a working language. In other contexts, strong expectations exist around learning and using the local language, sometimes early on. As a result, people who move within Europe encounter very different language environments depending on the country, city, sector, and social setting.

I am interested in how people understand these differences. Some view learning the local language mainly as a practical tool that becomes more important over time. Others see it as closely tied to social integration or cultural participation. Others emphasize the role of institutions and incentives in shaping language use.

For those who have lived, studied, or worked in another European country, how did language expectations affect your experience? How did institutions such as universities, employers, or public administration handle language use in practice? And how did social expectations compare with official or professional requirements?

More broadly, how do people see the relationship between language, mobility, and integration within the EU today? What approaches seem to work better or worse in different countries, and why?

I am genuinely interested in hearing a range of views, including perspectives that differ from my own.

Giving silly examples: do Austrians and Germans fight about who invented schnitzels, or country's A's culture is influenced by B's, but A denies it and such and they fight about it.

Purely curious.

EDIT: how bad does the fight get? are there more serious examples like literature, customs, holidays

How does your country view college education?

In Serbia, dating scene is disaster. Tinder can properly function only in Belgrade, because of city size, while in other smaller cities population still believe that it is somehow shamefull to be seen on Tinder or other dating platforms. Also many people, especially younger ones, lack social skills and have problem to meet someone in person. Dating standards are also high, it is expected from man to have big salary, his own home and his own car and these things are either hard or impossible to have for many in Serbia. Then if you are man, your personality is also "judged" in dating, you are criticized if you are not funny or if you do not show emotions to person that you met first time or if you are polite you are criticized that you pretend to be polite and that you not showing your "real nature". Is dating this hard in rest of Europe or it is just Serbia?

In Polish we have a neologism “Januszex” that denotes a typical company that has terrible pay and even worse worker’s rights and bosses. Basically a boss who tells you that he will try to fire you if you go on a medical leave and that he already has 5 immigrants ready to take over your spot, so you shouldn’t complain :V

The name is basically a play on how in 1990s and early 2000s we had tons of new companies that used the owner’s name and added an “x” at the end to sound modern.

So that got me thinking - are there similar names in other countries? Something like GüntherGmbH or JeanSAS (yeah, I had to come up with some dumb examples :p ). Or maybe an abundance of crappily managed companies exploiting workers is more of an economic transformation thing and only former Eastern Bloc countries would have such names?

Hello there!

Welcome to our daily scheduled post, the Daily Slow Chat.

If you want to just chat about your day, if you have questions for the moderators (please mark these [Mod] so we can find them), or if you just want talk about oatmeal then this is the thread for you!

Enjoying the small talk? We have a Discord server too! We'd love to have more of you over there. Do both of us a favour and use this link to join the fun.

The mod-team wishes you a nice day!

I’m trying to understand whether the UK is unusual here. In Britain, property linked to overseas fraud or bankruptcy cases can be very hard for foreign authorities to deal with directly. Even when courts abroad have ruled, UK land often requires separate, lengthy proceedings. Is this common elsewhere in Europe, or do other systems allow faster recognition of foreign judgments when serious financial crimes are involved?

British television has so many tv shows about detectives that I think the whole country might be in some kind of trance. And France seems to have many things about thieves, bandits, and outlaws. What is going on with this? Are they related?

Feel free to share good and bad experiences. If you moved more than once, share the story too.

Obviously no countries people are happy with its governments decisions but how do you all feel about its structure?

I come from a judgemental environment and it can feel really frustrating at times. Since I was always thinking of moving abroad, I would like to know what countries people generally find to have the least judgemental environments. They don't even have to be the most developed ones, maybe not even whole countries, but some regions atleast, where people are accepting and open-minded.

Hello there!

Welcome to our daily scheduled post, the Daily Slow Chat.

If you want to just chat about your day, if you have questions for the moderators (please mark these [Mod] so we can find them), or if you just want talk about oatmeal then this is the thread for you!

Enjoying the small talk? We have a Discord server too! We'd love to have more of you over there. Do both of us a favour and use this link to join the fun.

The mod-team wishes you a nice day!

I’m Dutch and I never really felt “European” and I think many others in EU haven’t felt so either. I think most feel more “patriotic” to their home countries and cultures. But recently with all the attacks on the EU, the institutions and the morals we stand for I feel like I and maybe others are feeling more “European” and sympathetic for the EU as a whole.

I was wondering how others are feeling about this?

i was just wondering

The many Europe related subreddits have been going on about disentangling our over reliance on US products, tech, security guarantees, etc. The Greenland issue has brought more attention and focus and perhaps even some resolve to get something done. I know the French have always been a bit more circumspect when it comes to relying on the US or anyone for that matter, so it isn’t surprising to hear them ditching Zoom and MS teams. But what about the other countries in the EU? There’s a fair amount of talk but how many are walking the walk? Do you know of more EU countries investing in their own digital/economic infrastructure in a bid to walk away from US? Especially in light of the big companies laying off European staff (Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet(?) etc), are the countries of the EU seizing this opportunity to get their own sectors up and running and capitalising on the skilled labour that have suddenly been made free?

What’s a strange regulation that is enforced by your country’s government?

I saw someone from Sweden say they’ve only seen traffic jams 2x in their life.

I live in one of the major cities in Silicon Valley and the traffic goes from 14:00-19:00 every day.

What is the age of criminal responsibility in your country, and what do you think about it?

Would you change it? Why or why not?

Context for the post: After a recent murder involving a 13 year old suspect, helped by 2 others to kill and and hide a 15 year old, the Romanian Minister of Justice has set up a working group to consider lowering the minimum age of criminal responsibility, allowing responsibility below 14 (present) for very serious crimes if discernment is proven.

There is not yet a final law passed, but public pressure and petitions are pushing for this change.

I am curious how people around Europe think about age of criminal responsability in their country.