Unless work is helping you out, expect to have difficulties opening up bank account in EU due to FATCA. Lots of banks don’t want to deal with that, so they’ll outright reject Americans.

As others have said, try to learn the language, at least a little. Although I’d say 90% of the population will know English.

Take ferry over to Germany if you want cheaper beer/wine/alc. The Swedes go to Denmark, and Danish go to Germany :).

Q: will you be returning to the US?

Just replied to another comment, but another option is Mullvad’s: adblock.dns.mullvad.net

You can also set up this link for your DNS without having to use a VPN: adblock.dns.mullvad.net

Woah woah woah, watch it there. Talk like that could get you sued.