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[AskEurope] Fellow Europeans, what is the aspect of USA lifestyle that surprises you the most? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First of all, let's try to avoid American-bashing, and stay respectful to everyone.

I'll start: for me it's the tipping culture. Especially nowadays, with the recent post on [email protected] with the 40% tip, it just seems so weird to me to have to pay extra just so that menu prices can stay low.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

next to no one gets fixed term leases here, and I think even if you would, after certain time, by law it implicitly changes into an open-ended one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It implicitly changes to an open-ended one here too, but again, at double the rent. It's obviously meant to coerce tenants into continuing to sign fixed-term leases and agreeing to whatever new terms the landlord feels like imposing.

I envy you, that you actually have substantial protection under the law from malicious landlords.