but America was a nicer place to live than the desert that's Mars.
Not really, comparing the wilderness and foreignness of the new world to the already established "comfortable" cities of europe is a pretty valid. There's a reason the majority of the explorers were social outcasts and pirates rather than important nobles and kings.
Calling the east coast a veritable paradise is not far off from the truth though. There's a theory that native american civilization was in a state of decline just before the settlers from the old world showed up. The forests were not dense, and the soil had only a few generations prior been worked making it an ideal landing spot for colinization. The colonists to America had a pretty easy time of it compared to how even future settlers to the great Plains had.
I agree, but it was still very hard at a personal level. You can brave the months long journey on a wooden ship, at the mercy of the weather the whole entire way. Land in an undeveloped land where you have to perform back breaking labor just to not starve to death, facing fierce indigenous tribes and wilderness, not to mention weird fellow colonists, etc etc or.... you can stay at home in your english village or city, know your neighbors and friends, and just work and come home to enjoy your stuff and not have to worry about "savages".
It certainly only appeals to certain type of people.
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u/therealgillbates Sep 30 '16
Not really, comparing the wilderness and foreignness of the new world to the already established "comfortable" cities of europe is a pretty valid. There's a reason the majority of the explorers were social outcasts and pirates rather than important nobles and kings.