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Don’t drive! You’re in Europe… trains go fucking everywhere!

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It seems like you’ve never been to Germany

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Wanted to say that too. I mean, technically the train network is pretty well connected but it’s so underfunded that trains oftentimes don’t drive at all or they’re late and then every train after that is also late. It’s mostly fine but it happens way too often. I had to stand in freezing cold for an hour or longer too many times in the last three years where I took the train daily.

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I don’t know, maybe it’s just particularly bad where I live, but I regularly have to the the god damn Schienenersatzverkehr, and even this god damn fucking bus that is supposed to replace the train is always like 20 minutes late. Like how the fuck do you even mess that up DB? HOW?!

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Just to note, this doesn’t apply to the UK. Our trains are generally useless and expensive.

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Any reason in particular? I would have thought that the UK would be all over good rail transit.

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One word: privatization

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Things get less well connected in the more eastern nations, especially heading down to Greece.

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Well, there are some exceptions. This year, I’m travelling by train to all my holiday destinations, but the last connection I will fly because the trains run in such a stupidly way.

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Yea - my statement is generally accurate for Western Europe. Eastern Europe, especially the Balkans, is awful for high-speed coverage.

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The high speed Internet coverage is quite the opposite though.

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In my case actually Western Europe, but a very specific connection that would either need to go through the alps (which means slow speeds and switching trains a lot) or take a huge detour via Paris.

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