Such a weird dichotomic view can only come from someone who’s never lived in Europe. Loud cars and motorbikes weren’t a thing in Germany, where I lived for 30 y

Such a weird dichotomic view can only come from someone who’s never lived in Europe. Loud cars and motorbikes weren’t a thing in Germany, where I lived for 30 years, and yet I had the impression that my privacy was also much better protected and respected than here in the US.