Current Status

I'm back in Leuven, BE, after spending the night in Maastricht, NL after the Deutsche Bahn train we were on was late by half an hour, causing us to miss all of the rest of our connections to Leuven. (And all of the trains stop running at midnight.) My original plan was to be heading to Belgium right now to catch my plane back to the US in two hours, but I've moved my reservation to another flight, and extended my stay here.

The Dutch know how to build some beautiful cities. Also, it's snowed like two inches (5cm) here this morning, and it's still coming down.

What's wrong with Europe?

If you're an American reading this, and you've never been to Europe. What are some of the bad things/stereotypes you hear about it? I've heard some Americans go on and on about how Europe is such a horrible place, and how to USA is superior in all ways and crap like that. But I can't remember any specifics right now; So someone tell me something specifically bad about Europe. Like, hypothetically, if I was going to move to somewhere in Western Europe for the next several years, how would you talk me out of it?

[So far, my experience here is that everything really is better in Europe than in the US.]