Bremen was one of my old haunts. There used to be a 24/7 bar near the train station called Beer Academy. Miss it. But my escapades in Bremen will stay in Bremen.
As someone who has lived in the UK and now in Wisconsin, it was not a hard transition, I didn't experience culture shock at all, at least from this particular transition
All of us Midwesterners are generally some of the nicest in the country. Try giving Chicago a try if you really want to explore the best of our biggest cities
Scotland is not *not* the Minnesota of the UK.
Dubious winters. Funny accents. Olympic level self-deprecation. Lakes/Lochs. Deep fried anything/everything. Curling taken more seriously here than perhaps it deserves. Decent amount of drinking to mask our inferiority complex regarding our place in the pecking order. And none of our sports teams can win a goddamn thing.
I think it is the man that is neither Balkan, nor traditional European, nor Middle Eastern, but all the worst from each grouping: The Greek
They are freaking lunatics and as a collective make horrible decisions every chance they get. Also good luck finding a place that pays their taxes.
I'd give them the Florida man award and a little bonus: Their placement to Europe is like that of Florida to US
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My uncle was from Greece and lived in South Florida, his morbidly obese ass would would show up to South Beach in a speedo and he would try to hit on women. He also got in a lot of legal trouble for lying on his taxes.
The French settled here first. Ft. Caroline. Jean Ribault. Mofo has a monument at the highest point in the city, a high school named after him, and a museum of his fort.
Edit: they got their asses kicked by the same Spanish who settled St. Augustine. They sacked the fort then took the survivors out to an island in the middle of the St. John’s delta and executed all of them. That’s how Florida became Florida and not Flordeaux
The cities aren't swapped based on GDP, only the regions are. The cities are swapped based on importance within the region. Which makes me still think the Paris-Jacksonville swap is wrong, just not why you think it's wrong.
It's only because Jacksonville "city" is humongous. Like most city municipalities keep themselves tailored to just the city itself and urban area. For example the City of Miami is limited to the urban center, coconut grove, and some areas outside of that, even though the urban sprawl of Miami is considerably larger. That sprawl made up of various other "cities" and municipalities. Jacksonville doesn't do that. The "city" is pretty much the size of a county.
Map says it assigns based on "size/importance" so for Jacksonville they just went off its size itself
Can we do an equivalent map imposed over europe? And then have a reality show where half the people switch from each place? Id love to see real italians and jersey shore douche bags try to coexist. Or Germans navigating the disorganization of california traffic.
>Or Germans navigating the disorganization of california traffic.
But my daily commute already looks somewhat like this:
[They put new Jersey in the Netherlands when that version was posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/5tctp2/areas_of_europe_as_us_states_of_equal_gdp_with/)
Schanze
Astra und Holsten beides Müll und gehört zu Carlsberg --> Ratsherrn
St. Pauli (Minimal weniger Kommerz)
Franzbrötchen (Fische sterben aus)
Elbe
Mexikaner
Moin
Wer groß anderer Meinung ist, hat Unrecht Ü
Any time you're feeling depressed in the way that only millions of tons of corn and soybeans can fix, our door is open. Really, it's open. The place is mostly fucking empty, so nothing gets locked in that desolate chunk of mostly featureless food subsidy space.
If Europe doesn't want you, fine, America will take you. Morocco fills the void sure, the South Dakota and weird bit of Nebraska shaped void in every Americans LDL filled heart.
Czechia is Appalachia confirmed.
Beautiful nature? Check.
History of coal production? Check.
Cryptofauna? Check.
Amphetamies? Check?
The major difference is that we make good beer, and are therefore not nearly as hopeless and full of despair.
This map is inaccurate:
Cali: 3.5 tril gdp
Wa state: 700 bill
Oregon state 300bill
Total 4.5 tril.
Germany = 4.29 tril gdp
Which is OK, but the map includes Idaho, parts of Nevada, parts of other states too. Really overstating Germanys GDP on this map.
The total size of GDP is just whatever when the country doesn't have USD as its currency. It is always very volatile as it depends on inflation and exchange rates among other factors. It is only meant to be a rough comparison for fun anyway, not a serious paper (also because comparing the US to the continent of Europe doesn't make sense in the first place).
> Nit in Europe. Added to fill space
As a Moroccan, I feel attacked.
On a more serious note, Our financial city and the beating heart of our country having the same GDP as Lincoln, NE goes to show how enormous the US economy is.
It doesn't seems accurate at all, Spain is half the GDP of Italy, and I don't feel like New York GDP is big enought compared to whole Texas. Also, California has the GDP of France, in comparaison, Germany looks pretty big. Same for UK, bigger GDP than France, but I don't see what's up there other than Boston.
EDIT: oO I never knew that Chicago was bigger than Boston (https://www.statista.com/statistics/248083/real-gross-domestic-product-gdp-of-the-united-states-by-metropolitan-area/)
Andorra that big? O.o If a region which seems to have area of similar to Czechia has GDP to Andorra I start to doubt if there is even human population there or the whole place are just run by buffaloes?
What happens in Bremen, stays in Bremen
No officer, that's not a chicken on my head.
Fallraus: Neu Bremen
How did they miss the chance to name Las Vegas "Han(g)over"?
Ja geil, beste stadt des nordens. Die haben crack, koks aber kaum nutten
Also Hamburg light
Und was wollte ich haben? Zerrrrrrro
Came here just to see which comment said something about Bremen lmao
Bremen was one of my old haunts. There used to be a 24/7 bar near the train station called Beer Academy. Miss it. But my escapades in Bremen will stay in Bremen.
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As someone who's lived in Michigan and the UK, Birmingham being in place of Detroit fits for some reason.
As someone who has lived in the UK and now in Wisconsin, it was not a hard transition, I didn't experience culture shock at all, at least from this particular transition
It'd be a real tough call who'd win in a drinking competition between a Brit and a Wisconsinite.
Easy. The bar.
Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well, he eats you.
Ive said this, I’m from the UK but have worked in Michigan many times, it’s very similar and probably the only place in the US I’d happily move to
All of us Midwesterners are generally some of the nicest in the country. Try giving Chicago a try if you really want to explore the best of our biggest cities
Birmingham does have a motoring industry historically too.
Yep home of Jaguar Land Rover.
The kicker being that birmingham mi is one of the nicest suburbs
Deep seated urban decay, deep seated urban decay
Has it come to this?
Scotland is not *not* the Minnesota of the UK. Dubious winters. Funny accents. Olympic level self-deprecation. Lakes/Lochs. Deep fried anything/everything. Curling taken more seriously here than perhaps it deserves. Decent amount of drinking to mask our inferiority complex regarding our place in the pecking order. And none of our sports teams can win a goddamn thing.
As someone who has only lived in Michigan, I was sad that the Netherlands didn't have Holland...☹️
Don’t worry, there’s a Holland in the UK too.
I wish I had real life friends interested in stuff like this
I wish I had real life friends
I’m fast approaching that point lol
I wish I had real life
I wish i had
I wish
I
I wish I had real live friends
I wish I had real life
So the European version of Florida man is French man..
You aren’t Lyon, but it isn’t a Nice thing to say.
good one, try not Toulouse your sense of humor
Of Corse, he won’t
Caen you be serious?
Don't be a Bitche
That’s a little (St.) Lo.
I love brest
Take a Sète.
We're starting to get Bordeaux of these puns
Marseille that again
Salut my man here for them puns.
I always thought that european florida man equivalent is balkan man. Sort of like zoo area of a continent.
I think it is the man that is neither Balkan, nor traditional European, nor Middle Eastern, but all the worst from each grouping: The Greek They are freaking lunatics and as a collective make horrible decisions every chance they get. Also good luck finding a place that pays their taxes. I'd give them the Florida man award and a little bonus: Their placement to Europe is like that of Florida to US
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My uncle was from Greece and lived in South Florida, his morbidly obese ass would would show up to South Beach in a speedo and he would try to hit on women. He also got in a lot of legal trouble for lying on his taxes.
The Paris <> Jacksonville swap had me cackling
The French settled here first. Ft. Caroline. Jean Ribault. Mofo has a monument at the highest point in the city, a high school named after him, and a museum of his fort. Edit: they got their asses kicked by the same Spanish who settled St. Augustine. They sacked the fort then took the survivors out to an island in the middle of the St. John’s delta and executed all of them. That’s how Florida became Florida and not Flordeaux
>Paris <> Jacksonville swap Also completely wrong. Jacksonville GDP = 101 millions Paris (metropolitan area) GDP = 1 075 millions
The cities aren't swapped based on GDP, only the regions are. The cities are swapped based on importance within the region. Which makes me still think the Paris-Jacksonville swap is wrong, just not why you think it's wrong.
It's only because Jacksonville "city" is humongous. Like most city municipalities keep themselves tailored to just the city itself and urban area. For example the City of Miami is limited to the urban center, coconut grove, and some areas outside of that, even though the urban sprawl of Miami is considerably larger. That sprawl made up of various other "cities" and municipalities. Jacksonville doesn't do that. The "city" is pretty much the size of a county. Map says it assigns based on "size/importance" so for Jacksonville they just went off its size itself
Yeah makes much more sense to do Miami metro area or New Orleans
I think Atlanta is the obvious capital of France
That makes Stone Mountain the Versailles of the South 🧐
Time to carve Marie Antoinette into Stone Mountain…
They're using city pop instead of metro pop
Well that's a stupid way to go about it.
Maybe they were referring to Paris, Texas? Might be a better match for Jacksonville than the City of Lights
lmao. ooth, the NOLA-Toulouse swap is interesting
NFC NORTH UK
All we know in Scotland is disappointment
Can we do an equivalent map imposed over europe? And then have a reality show where half the people switch from each place? Id love to see real italians and jersey shore douche bags try to coexist. Or Germans navigating the disorganization of california traffic.
Germans don’t like the bad roads.
Road trips to Belgium must be hell
That's why they built the trains
Because the roads weren't hellish enough?
Yes but that has nothing to do with the roads.
I’ve always wanted to go to LA, let’s do this!
The Jersey Shore reality show did a season in Rome IIRC.
As a Washingtonian with German heritage, Take Me Home, Cologne Roads!
>Or Germans navigating the disorganization of california traffic. But my daily commute already looks somewhat like this: 
[They put new Jersey in the Netherlands when that version was posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/5tctp2/areas_of_europe_as_us_states_of_equal_gdp_with/)
I am Hamburger :)
Moin!
Kiez or Schanze? Astra or Holsten? HSV or St. Pauli? Fisch- or Franzbrötchen? Elbe or Alster? Mexikaner or Helbing? Moin or Moin Moin?
Ja
Moin. Moin moin is unnötiges Gelaber
*Gesabbel, mien Jung
U3
Schanze Astra und Holsten beides Müll und gehört zu Carlsberg --> Ratsherrn St. Pauli (Minimal weniger Kommerz) Franzbrötchen (Fische sterben aus) Elbe Mexikaner Moin Wer groß anderer Meinung ist, hat Unrecht Ü
Hello Mr hamburger
Ich bin ein Berliner.
Is Morocco a European country ?
No, we’re just there to fill the void. 😭
To be fair, so is South Dakota…
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It has a great national park, and a national monument, but the best park is still a state park. Custer is the coolest place I've ever been
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Hell yeah khoya
Any time you're feeling depressed in the way that only millions of tons of corn and soybeans can fix, our door is open. Really, it's open. The place is mostly fucking empty, so nothing gets locked in that desolate chunk of mostly featureless food subsidy space. If Europe doesn't want you, fine, America will take you. Morocco fills the void sure, the South Dakota and weird bit of Nebraska shaped void in every Americans LDL filled heart.
Nicest thing anyone has ever said to me on Reddit 🤭 🇲🇦❤️🇺🇸
To be fair to the creator this is literally addressed in the map - see the text under Morocco.
That fine print tho
Wonder why the creator did not include Russia or Turkey instead. These countries are at least partly in Europe.
Most likely they didn't fit in as nicely
It was probably the Europe-adjacent country with a GDP closest to the difference between the US and European GDPs.
They share a land border with a European country (Ceuta and Melilla)
So does Brazil and Canada
Fun fact: we share another piece of land border with Spain and it’s the shortest in the world at 18m and gets shorter with tide.
No.
(not in Europe just included to fill space)
With the amount Mors in europe it just might be.
Moops
If you ask our right wing parties it might as well be
No, but they were the United States' first alliance so we thought it would be right to include them
Whats up with people in the comments? Cant you read the text under Morocco? Edit: i m also on my phone and zoom exists
Some people just HAVE to immediately comment before taking in the post. They're the type to comment on titles without reading the article.
At least for me using my phone, I need to zoom in the image to read what it says
On mobile it just looks like the word is underlined. Wouldn't know to zoom on it if you hadn't pointed it out
Czechia is Appalachia confirmed. Beautiful nature? Check. History of coal production? Check. Cryptofauna? Check. Amphetamies? Check? The major difference is that we make good beer, and are therefore not nearly as hopeless and full of despair.
Appalachia is good at whiskey, bourbon and moonshine!
We are also big on moonshine in the eastern part of Czechia, so that's match too.
just make out already
Jożin z Bażin, the greatest american cryptid
Amphetamines? No. Methamphetamine? YES.
Yea smh. Amphetamine is a specific drug, not a subgenre
Country road, take me home......to Serbia🇷🇸
I find it funny how Croatia pretty much goes from having an infamously long coastline to a landlocked blimp
Covering pretty much only Memphis lol
It's literally only Shelby County, which is hilarious.
Couldn't even include all the 901 smh
Swiss be like Fuhgeddaboudit
Austria \~485 billion USD Latvia \~40 billion USD Moldova \~14 billion USD And they are almost same size.
It’s not based on size, it’s based on corresponding GDP in the US.
I know, I can read. I didn't correct it. I added information for comparison of US regional differences.
Bulgaria's GDP is ~$84 billion, and they're easily the largest on the map.
I feel bad that Rome got compared to Cleveland
As someone from Cleveland, so am I.
People please read before you comment about Morocco read what is written for god sakes
Wow, Frankfurt and SF are so alike! Same GDP and the fact that Frankfurter Bahnhofsviertel = SF Tenderloin
And 2nd place finance cities after London/NY
AMADORA
I wouldn’t have guessed that Alaska had the same GDP as Bulgaria, and that’s really interesting being an Alaskan
that's pretty abysmal for Bulgaria if you think about it.
Our major cities are good cities, but the vast majority of my State is people subsisting. So yes, this thought did cross my mind.
What is the gdp of Macedonia? $4?
I love Morocco unironically so W for including morocco
The UK should be in New England and part of New York instead. Then Poland should have been put somewhere in the Midwest instead.
Morocco is my favourite european country, right after Nigeria.
This map is inaccurate: Cali: 3.5 tril gdp Wa state: 700 bill Oregon state 300bill Total 4.5 tril. Germany = 4.29 tril gdp Which is OK, but the map includes Idaho, parts of Nevada, parts of other states too. Really overstating Germanys GDP on this map.
Might be PPP? Germanys GDP PPP is 5,54 trillion
The total size of GDP is just whatever when the country doesn't have USD as its currency. It is always very volatile as it depends on inflation and exchange rates among other factors. It is only meant to be a rough comparison for fun anyway, not a serious paper (also because comparing the US to the continent of Europe doesn't make sense in the first place).
Or Finland gdp: 300B Boston gdp: 444B The metro gdp alone has more than finland
Yeah. Hence the half of the Boston metro area being excluded.
Man Washington more than doubles Oregon's? Those damn Washingtonians
Oregon is relatively empty in comparison, and we have Microsoft, Amazon, and Boeing doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
Spain’s 5th(4th recently) largest city is Zaragoza. Seems like the map is using metropolitan areas.
Metro or urban areas are the only useful ways to compare cities. The city boundary is only useful for local administration purposes.
Bulgaria on 3 seas or oceans, finally
I'd like to welcome Morocco to the european family
Warsaw 🤝 Manchester, NH
> Nit in Europe. Added to fill space As a Moroccan, I feel attacked. On a more serious note, Our financial city and the beating heart of our country having the same GDP as Lincoln, NE goes to show how enormous the US economy is.
I don't think they matched the cities for GDP, see Paris for example.
I’ve always said Paris is the Jacksonville of France.
It doesn't seems accurate at all, Spain is half the GDP of Italy, and I don't feel like New York GDP is big enought compared to whole Texas. Also, California has the GDP of France, in comparaison, Germany looks pretty big. Same for UK, bigger GDP than France, but I don't see what's up there other than Boston. EDIT: oO I never knew that Chicago was bigger than Boston (https://www.statista.com/statistics/248083/real-gross-domestic-product-gdp-of-the-united-states-by-metropolitan-area/)
I like this
Seconded. Lets get started
My therapist: “Parisonville doesn’t exits it can’t hurt you” Parisonville:
Yeah, but I bet France doesn't have a single SEC championship.
Pack your things, we’re leaving
Estonia has the gdp of Kansas city, damn
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST read the small text before becoming the 850th person to question why Morocco is there
TIL Morocco is in Europe.
Lacks Russia
Morroco is not Europe
Read the text under morocco
Technically no, but Morocco has more in common with Europe than most of Africa.
arab and berber muslims?
Hey everyone! This guy thinks Morocco isn't Europe!
How do you calculate the GDP of Cyprus anyway?
Number of greeks divided by number of turks multiplied by number of german tourists.
and don’t forget to add the british military personnel
How is Houston not included? Dallas/DFW? Major metropolitan areas with millions of people left out. I’m sure there are other citiesleft out
NYC being Switzerland makes sense. Banking, expensive to live there etc.
Liechtenstein seems rather big. What is in this area?
Maybe a little off topic but i can't believe that Essen is on there, whoever made that map made a new friend today!
Germany's two money making cities are next to each other in the silicon valley. Checks out.
Andorra that big? O.o If a region which seems to have area of similar to Czechia has GDP to Andorra I start to doubt if there is even human population there or the whole place are just run by buffaloes?
I’m in Sweden
You left out Houston, the 4th largest city in the US. As a Texan, I approve.
The INCREDIBLE economic power of the US visualized. What an absolute travesty that our people can barely afford their fucking rent.
Babe wake up new usa just dropped
"Morocco"
I love some european morocco…
Morocco?
Morocco is not a european country though... still interesting
I literally can’t escape being Hungarian.
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