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To be fair, the Netherlands is tiny: Amsterdam to Rotterdam is only 60 km (~37 mi) apart. There are plenty of Americans who live that far away from their work c
by TulliusCicero 7y ago
To be fair, the Netherlands is tiny: Amsterdam to Rotterdam is only 60 km (~37 mi) apart. There are plenty of Americans who live that far away from their work city and commute in by car.
- ginko 7y agoThat's not the Netherlands being tiny. It's the US being ridiculously huge and sparsely populated.
- ant6n 7y agoSparsity isn't an issue, the are plenty of people in boswash. The issue is sprawl and suburbanization. Pre-WW2 US was much better for trains, despite having fewer people in the same overall area - just better concentrated.
- maxsilver 7y ago> The issue is sprawl and suburbanization Which itself is also not really the issue, but for the last 20+ years or so, is just a symptom of US cities being openly hostile against most people (whether due to high costs, monopolized land, lack of housing, lack of reasonable transportation infrastructure, lack of education infrastructure, etc).