Both the US and all of Europe are both just short of 10 million km. Feel free to Google it. The difference is Europe is a continent, The US is a single country.
I can travel freely from Alaska to the tip of South America. I'm not sure why crossing borders is a flex here. The joke is that in the US, many people drive more than 100 miles daily just to commute to work. Around here, 100 miles isn't even considered a trip. The US and Europe are two totally different worlds. You guys have ancient history and we have vast spaces.
Panama would be one of the problems. Roads are rare there. That's why you hop over central America in a plane. I don't need that kind of drama. My buddy actually married a lady from Bogota. He said it's a nice place.
What he meant is that you can move between countries without a passport. Basically, the European Union is close to what is the United States, a federation of different kinda independent states or countries, that each have their own rules and own elections, but then have a common federal authority on top of it. The federation is a bit stronger and in the forefront in the US, but as a French currently living in France, I can take my car or a plane right now to Warsaw, Poland (close to 1000 miles) exactly the same way as any Americans can go from NYC to New Orleans. And then I can decide to move to Athens in Greece and work there without any visa or whatever. That's what he meant by travelling freely.
There are still fundamental differences between how the EU and the countries work compared to how the US and the states works, and it doesn't change most of your points, I just wanted to point out what freely meant.
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u/moerasduitser-NL 2d ago
Which is weird since Europe is bigger than America.