It didn't seem like stress, it seemed like they genuinely enjoyed being superior entitled assholes.
And as an American, I thought I had a high threshold for that.
The rest of Europe was incredible, the Nordic countries are my vision of heaven on earth. Mostly moved to Sweden, yesterday basically cut my last ties.
History furnishes us with innumerable instances that prove this law. It shows, with a startling clarity, that whenever Aryans have mingled their blood with that of an inferior race the result has been the downfall of the people who were the standard-bearers of a higher culture. In North America, where the population is prevalently Teutonic, and where those elements intermingled with the inferior race only to a very small degree, we have a quality of mankind and a civilization which are different from those of Central and South America. In these latter countries the immigrants–who mainly belonged to the Latin races–mated with the aborigines, sometimes to a very large extent indeed. In this case we have a clear and decisive example of the effect produced by the mixture of races. But in North America the Teutonic element, which has kept its racial stock pure and did not mix it with any other racial stock, has come to dominate the American Continent and will remain master of it as long as that element does not fall a victim to the habit of adulterating its blood.
I speak French, in Paris they still look at you like garbage.
Actually, outside of Paris I got along fine, but here's the thing: Even native french speakers from outside of Paris are treated like absolute garbage by Parisians, it's their only setting.
Meh, I like my udm.
I use some of the features, but mostly it just works, and it's debian under the hood so I just ssh in and unfuck whatever needs unfucking.
It's vastly closer to a hand-built setup than anything else, and you can spend less time worrying about security.