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Most of Europe outside of large metros is the same as well.
by xyzzyz 4y ago
Most of Europe outside of large metros is the same as well.
- bonzini 4y agoIt depends. For example there are many places that are too small to live without a car, but where you can do basic grocery shopping or kids can still go to school on foot or by bike. The spread is rarely comparable to the US.
- skrtskrt 4y agoThere’s a difference between “it’s rural so things are spread out” and what we have in places like LA and Houston where major metro centers that could have been dense with good transit were purposely designed to be spread out and only able to be gotten around in in an automobile
- Lammy 4y agoThere are plenty of non-US places which used to have transit and now do not. Britain's 1960s "Beeching Axe" comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts
- barrkel 4y agoEurope is not like the west coast of the US. Even urban areas are practically unnavigable by foot; everything is too spread out and only accessible by walking along heavily trafficked roads. You'll want at least a bicycle in rural Europe, but you don't normally need a whole lot more.