Yeah personally I agree . But , having kids may make that challenging . Alimony sucks but that ' s basically it ' s purpose <| sep |> It ' s not private . I can still see it . <| sep |> A european country is not an american state . We are much more different . Between NATO and the European Union and the European Court of Justice , I believe all 47 or so european countries enjoy relatively peaceful relations . Within some countries , like Spain , Italy , the UK or Belgium , you have a lot more tensions than between american states . Even at a subnational level , some european countries are way more different than even the two most different american states . France is an exception in that regard , it was is still a very centralized state . But Germany has landers and a large part of it was a communist archenemy country for years , Italy has semiautonomous regions , Spain has autonomies , the UK has several nations within it , the Swiss have cantons , the Belgians have three linguistic communities .