> Europe is civilized. America is a wilderness Europe has 3x the population density of the US, so this definitely tracks. Europeans (and some US city-dwellers

> Europe is civilized. America is a wilderness Europe has 3x the population density of the US, so this definitely tracks. Europeans (and some US city-dwellers) have so much trouble understanding the popularity of the car here, because they don't get the scale of the wilderness. I routinely hop in my car and in under 10 minutes I'm in places that public transportation will never reach. I can't even fathom how terrible the quality of life would become for me if I had to rely on public transit. Great if I'm going downtown, but I rarely do...