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syndicatedjelly

I really love it when foreigners visit this country and pick the absolute worst possible traveling conditions imaginable. Presumably so they can go back home and share their "authentic" American experience with whoever is stupid enough to listen. It's like they enjoy wearing this badge of honor that they witnessed the misery that is America or whatever.

Were you expecting something better because you're a "white European"? I don't really get why that prefaced the story. I'm not white and I've never had such a bad experience as you in any country, let alone America, am I doing something wrong?

How would it be if I visited wherever you're from and proud of, and intentionally stayed in a terrible part of town and got around by bullock cart, and then went back to America and bitched incessantly about your shithole of a country?

Actually as explained it was simply lack of knowledge about your country. I had no idea basic services could be so bad. The history of the Greyhound coach service is actually very interesting.

I prefaced with 'white European' because that is what I am. I considered it relevant to set my frame of reference. I have no idea what you are doing but I recommend more international travel. The world is full of amazing experiences, good, bad, indifferent but all valuable.

It would be fine. If you commented about it I would suggest better alternatives. I never suggested America was a shithole. In my experience it is incredibly diverse. You have the whole gamut of experiences there from amazing to terrible!

The thing about Greyhound is that it is genuinely unbelievable to people who haven't experienced it and for whom functioning public transport is like gravity or air. "Unbelievable" as in "if someone tells you about Greyhound, you won't believe them". It's not merely bad, it's worse than literally any other form of travel in a developed country, probably including hitchhiking.

Americans probably know this, but for the rest of us it's sort of like being told a bar serves bad drinks, then when you get there it's a dude pouring shots of wood alcohol into used specimen jars.

Heads-up: You might want to email dang as your account seems to be shadow-banned. Your recent comments of the last couple of hours show as [dead] (logout and see).

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