I don’t live outside a big city. I live in a Canadian city of only 1 million people. Thanks to the incredibly bad city planning (which is common all across Nor

I don’t live outside a big city. I live in a Canadian city of only 1 million people. Thanks to the incredibly bad city planning (which is common all across North America) and complete joke of local transit options (also common in NA), you regularly see folks with 45 minute to 2 hour commutes one way. Folks are losing as much as 4 hours out of their day even though they live in a small city that should be easier to commute but isn’t due to corruption and laziness of the city. To be clear, we’re not talking Seattle or Portland, we’re talking obscure cities like Ogden, Calgary, Edmonton, etc. North America is a massive turd compared to practically anything in Europe. Some of your far flung towns have better transit than some of our metropolises. tldr; it is drastically worse for commutes in any non-major American cities. You have no idea how good you have it in Europe.