Most of all I think, I hate that i don’t have easy access to nature. I live in the European lowlands, and the best we can do here is overcultivated/overhiked forests that are basically parks.
Then I hate that there are not enough trains (even in Europe). We subsidize the shit out of airlies and yet if I just want to hop on a train to go to London or Copenhagen, I basically can’t, without sigificant planning.
Then I also hate that the glamour of driving is gone. The age of Peak Car is long gone, the only reasonable option to go from A to B is on a highway but even thise are mostly jammed most of the time. I know Peak Car was very polluting (heck, my definition of Peak Car is basically the 60s so they still used leaded fuel lol), which is also smth I hate… I guess I basically want to live in the sweet ignorance of the 60s to not even know about these.
Then I hate that skiing is basically a dying sport, with more and more people (over)using the less and less usable slopes because of course together with climate, we fucked the ski resorts too.
And lastly but not least(ly), I hate how we fucked the Web and want Peak Web (the web of the late 90s/early 2000s) back please.
Especially as a European the first two things can be changed to some degree.
I live within sight(200m) of a proper nature park that basically is an extension of an national park.
And I have four different options for fast train travel within an hour and a (most of the time) reasonably good regional connection and a almost perfect regional connection 25min away.
Tbh, we did specifically move here for these things.
In terms of driving I must disagree - I have driven various cars from the 60ies and while they are gorgeous from the outside, the inside was always very underwhelming and also simply exhausting to drive.
But maybe I am also too different - I used to have big company cars (BMW 5, Audi A4/6/7, MB C/E) and did not really like them. Nowadays I drive a EV6 and it’s the most fun car I ever had,by a higr margin.
I don’t know man, i rented various types of new cars and absolutely didn’t enjoy any of them. My own car (v60) is utterly average (although very comfortable and will not replace it for a good while i think), and my all time favourite was my 2002 subaru forester which i had next to a brand new 2013 forester and still preferred over the newer model. So maybe I’m a lesbian and we certainly don’t share the same taste in cars :)
And nature… well you are lucky to live close to it. To me to get to Norway or Sweden (where i consider nature nature) is multi days of travel (unless i fly, which i hate, see the beef about trains).
Try the Black Forest. We have Lynx and wolves and even a mysterious elk this summer.
And tbh, V60 is a high average to fall from. Had one of these and while I didn’t loved it, I liked it. To quote a friend of mine who still owns one “brutally average and brutally versatile”.
Try a EV6 or 3,though. Good EVs are a huge difference when it comes to “fun in everyday driving” imho, due to their different engine characteristics.
Okay let’s see.
Most of all I think, I hate that i don’t have easy access to nature. I live in the European lowlands, and the best we can do here is overcultivated/overhiked forests that are basically parks.
Then I hate that there are not enough trains (even in Europe). We subsidize the shit out of airlies and yet if I just want to hop on a train to go to London or Copenhagen, I basically can’t, without sigificant planning.
Then I also hate that the glamour of driving is gone. The age of Peak Car is long gone, the only reasonable option to go from A to B is on a highway but even thise are mostly jammed most of the time. I know Peak Car was very polluting (heck, my definition of Peak Car is basically the 60s so they still used leaded fuel lol), which is also smth I hate… I guess I basically want to live in the sweet ignorance of the 60s to not even know about these.
Then I hate that skiing is basically a dying sport, with more and more people (over)using the less and less usable slopes because of course together with climate, we fucked the ski resorts too.
And lastly but not least(ly), I hate how we fucked the Web and want Peak Web (the web of the late 90s/early 2000s) back please.
Especially as a European the first two things can be changed to some degree. I live within sight(200m) of a proper nature park that basically is an extension of an national park. And I have four different options for fast train travel within an hour and a (most of the time) reasonably good regional connection and a almost perfect regional connection 25min away.
Tbh, we did specifically move here for these things.
In terms of driving I must disagree - I have driven various cars from the 60ies and while they are gorgeous from the outside, the inside was always very underwhelming and also simply exhausting to drive. But maybe I am also too different - I used to have big company cars (BMW 5, Audi A4/6/7, MB C/E) and did not really like them. Nowadays I drive a EV6 and it’s the most fun car I ever had,by a higr margin.
I don’t know man, i rented various types of new cars and absolutely didn’t enjoy any of them. My own car (v60) is utterly average (although very comfortable and will not replace it for a good while i think), and my all time favourite was my 2002 subaru forester which i had next to a brand new 2013 forester and still preferred over the newer model. So maybe I’m a lesbian and we certainly don’t share the same taste in cars :) And nature… well you are lucky to live close to it. To me to get to Norway or Sweden (where i consider nature nature) is multi days of travel (unless i fly, which i hate, see the beef about trains).
Try the Black Forest. We have Lynx and wolves and even a mysterious elk this summer.
And tbh, V60 is a high average to fall from. Had one of these and while I didn’t loved it, I liked it. To quote a friend of mine who still owns one “brutally average and brutally versatile”.
Try a EV6 or 3,though. Good EVs are a huge difference when it comes to “fun in everyday driving” imho, due to their different engine characteristics.