• DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    If only the EU understood just how sparse the US is geographically compared to the EU they may understand why cars are such a necessity.

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        Even in a lot of big us cities, most people don’t live in the city. I live in a metro area with 2 million but only 300k in the city. That’s 1.7 million with no public transit. Also all of the people farther out that aren’t vin the metro area, no public transit. A very small percentage of people in the US have non-car options, and even where it exists it is generally terrible.

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        People in the US have to travel 500km on their car every day just to go shopping, sadly nobody has figured out a way to build shops closer to the population or any sort of sharable transport.

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        Nope not a one. I saw a picture of some primitive form of shopping in Germany and this the US has no cities whatsoever.

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      Lmao. No the US like to kill all competition and forcing you to take your car 30 minutes to go to walmart. It’s often illegal in a lot of places to have a shop on the ground floor of a residential building. This is by design.

      American suburbs are cancer. See also “the missing middle”.