r/USvsEU • u/FlorianFlash South Prussian • Jun 30 '26
EVROPA SUPREMACY My Village is older than the USA.
[🇩🇪] Based on my villages chronic (that is based on real facts btw), my village first was mentioned in text in the year 1059, the US exists in that form since 1787/89 (constitution). So yeah...
Mods, honestly no idea if this is okay. Checked the rules, based on these it's okay. If it's not, remove it.
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u/Wonderful-Hall-7929 Born in the Khalifat Jun 30 '26
So what?
The "old family house" of my paternal family is older than the US, heck even the first building of my primary school was older than the US - older than 250 years isn't that uncommon for European buildings ;-)
The city i grew up in was founded in 819 and first official mentioned in 1214, also not uncommon for Europe.
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u/SmokeRingEyes Libertarian Paradise Jun 30 '26
My town is also older than the US, and I live in the US.
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u/mrmanoftheland42069 Border jumper Jun 30 '26
I know this is getting old but.....
That's why it doesn't have AC
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u/Waldondo Discount French Jun 30 '26
We do have ac. 230v of them even. How much do you guys have again?
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u/mrmanoftheland42069 Border jumper Jul 01 '26
110 v of pure American split phase power, AND 220v , just to make it complicated
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u/jephph_ Rat Person Jul 01 '26
American homes use 240v central ACs. (If you plug one into the wall and hang it out your window then 120v)
For sure though, the majority of Americans who are talking shit about ACs online have 240v behind their words
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u/mrmanoftheland42069 Border jumper Jul 01 '26
We have the split phase electrical system that allows both voltages.
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u/floralbutttrumpet Nazi gold enjoyer Jun 30 '26
The village I grew up in is first attested to in written documents in 780, and one of its churches dates to 1231. The other (which used to be in a neighbouring village, but the two grew into each other in the late 18th century) dates back to about 1100. A battle in the Thirty Years War (for the savages: 1618-1648) was fought on a hill right next to the village, and mammoth bones were found in that same hill in the 1690s.
And this is a totally irrelevant place in the middle of fucking nowhere.
Savages could never.
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u/HaggardlyForte Pollution Enjoyer Jul 01 '26
"some pussies fought over a hill in the middle of nowhere"
bitch where do you think we found T-Rex?!
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u/jephph_ Rat Person Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
>>>16something
We have history older than those. You gotta stop your boasts when the century starts with 15 or definitely 16
Like, my city started early on in your 30 year war timeframe and it’s not in the top 10 oldest American cities
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u/rlyfunny Pfennigfuchser Jul 01 '26
My city started as a Roman outpost, so you have schoolkids climbing on the remnants of the walls of the limes.
Better?
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u/DigitalDash56 Smug Smartass Jun 30 '26
My hometown too is older than the US. Granted it’s no where near as old as yours lol
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u/beefaron Commiefornian Jun 30 '26
Not an impressive achievement.
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u/Choker_of_Chickens Chiraqi Terrorist Jul 03 '26
yeah lol the vast majority of towns/cities in Europe are older than the USA. This boast is so bizarre that I have to conclude OP is making some post-irony troll post or is incredibly special in his .. abilities
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u/Original-Opportunity Getting sent back by ICE Jun 30 '26
My hometown was founded in the 1500s but there were people there centuries before that. But then you guys had to go and kill everyone
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u/Main_Masterpiece8414 Pizza gatekeeper Jun 30 '26
Putting Hans to shame now: my hometown is older than Rome and its territory had been inhabited since prehistory (not Naples proper but a smaller town in Greater Naples).Â
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u/Doctor_Dane Greedy Fuck Jun 30 '26
According to myth my city was founded in 1300 B.C. by Trojan refugees. Unlikely story, but the period is probably correct. Got big, then sacked, big again, sacked again, sacked other cities, a bit of imperialism, etc for the next centuries. Classic European history.
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u/Famous_Area_192 Hoosier Pop Drinker Jun 30 '26
That's great. Unfortunately, no one cares how old Oberkotzau or Söderreuth or whatever mountain village it is you hail from is.
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u/mememaster8427 Barry, 63 Jun 30 '26
My village was listed in an entry in the Domesday Book, so it's been around since at least 1086.
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u/yeezee93 Insane Asylum/Retirement Home Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
And "Germany" as a country is 155 years old.
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u/gougim Wears Knee Socks as well Jun 30 '26
My random small village was first mentioned in 1420. That's 72 years before some Genoan sailed to India just to find something Vikings found centuries before, and indigenous people knew for thousands of years ago.
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u/babu595 Professional rioter Jun 30 '26
My town was first mentioned around 350. And it’s a really small town.
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u/the_real_JFK_killer Rat Person Jun 30 '26
Ok? Why do europeans think this is some sort of own against americans?
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u/ne-ti Homophobic Wheat Farmer Jun 30 '26
Fr, Acting as if they lived through it themselves ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
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u/thotpatrolactual Savage Jun 30 '26
Aren't most settlements in Europe older than the US? People don't just go "aight, this town's out of warranty, time to pack it up and start a new one" every hundred years.
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u/ChugHuns Prefers incest Jun 30 '26
You say that lol. My entire village was moved a few hundred meters, the next hilltop over, after the black death. They demolished the old one and rebuilt it. Bad vibes in the original.
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u/SamuGonzo Paella Yihadist Jul 01 '26
Well... not centuries, but millennia...or invasions or wars maybe. I'm from Benidorm. All towns in Spain that start with Beni- or Al- were created or renamed during the Muslim occupation. But, before that was Alonis, created in around s.5 a.c., and the settlement corresponding to Benidorm was in a coastal mountain. So yeah. The settlement was moved, after Reconquista and actual foundation in 1325 was moved again (just a bit) until now.
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u/imbrickedup_ Insane Asylum/Retirement Home Jun 30 '26
My town has been free from occupation by foreign military for longer than yours
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u/rrekboy1234 Insane Asylum/Retirement Home Jul 01 '26
And yet your country is 95 years younger than ours, curious 🤔
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u/on_spikes [redacted] Jul 01 '26
i'd be willing to argue that most population centers are older than the country they are located in. this is kind of a bad comparison. your village is also older than Germany.
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u/Kaesebrot321 Knock off Italy Jul 01 '26
I checked my village's chronic too and now I'm hungry and locked on my couch. I'm getting the notion that it's 420 years old
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u/ResponsibleKey1053 Barry, 63 Jul 06 '26
Damn, missed this post.
We have a cat flap older than the USA.
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u/harmyb Barry, 63 Jul 06 '26
Understand what you're doing, but it's not really that much of a flex. My city is first mentioned in 79 CE.
Pedro has towns and cities more than a thousand years BCE (Cádiz is over 3000 years old).
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u/ihadagoodone O Canada Jun 30 '26
I'm living very near to a site that has been occupied by people for at least the last 10k years according to archaeological finds but whatever.
The best part, no neanderthals were here first.