[ChumpGPT]

Border controls don't bother me much if they're just a quick check. Countries need to verify that who is coming in is who they say they are. My problem with Schengen Zone is that you can only spend 3 months there and have to leave. There was a time you could go to Europe and spend an entire year traveling country to country, now it's only a 3 months.

[messe]

It's more or less the same as traveling the US on an ESTA. You can only spend 90 days at a time there.

[the_mitsuhiko]

In the US you can get a B1/B2 that lets you stay 180 days. The same version is much harder to do in Europe since >90 day stays are limited to a single country.

[herbst]

Visa hops are a normal, and usually accepted, thing tho. Ex. Thailand it's only 60 days. People still spend much longer there with short stops trough cheap AirAsia flights

[Gud]

What do you mean? Without a special visa you are only allowed 90 days in a 180 day period within Schengen. No visa hopping around it.

[herbst]

I actually wasn't aware and it led me down a rabbit hole that not even on a EU passport I am allowed to stay longer than 90 days in many countries without letting them know.