California will spend 9 trillion dollars, 20 years, and enormous amounts of drama and still have slower trains than Spain. 

But sure make fun of siestas and lazy Europeans and so on. Getting lots done in that frantic American workday of yours? How much of it was spent stuck in traffic?

Average train speed by country:

Measuring things at @spindl.

My FID is lower than all but 52 of you.

Goes without saying that Spain and France are the best countries in Europe, if not the world. 

Real toss-up here on where to live in a post-economic scenario.

I'll have my full Italian citizenship completed in three months... Euro Plan B in effect

It's a matter of preference for food and culture, but you can't go wrong anywhere in the Mediterranean