I have family in Europe and I think many Americans have a bit of a skewed view. Take a trip to Paris or Copenhagen and you see this car-free, bike oriented, pub

I have family in Europe and I think many Americans have a bit of a skewed view. Take a trip to Paris or Copenhagen and you see this car-free, bike oriented, public transit culture. But that’s kinda like visiting New York and DC and Boston and making the same conclusion about the US. Plenty of Europe is suburban with houses and a car culture. I think cars are actually quite common outside the city center, even if you live in an apartment like my grandparents (Poland and France), they still have a family car they drive to the store and mall and such. Definitely a more walkable focus in general, but this vision of Europe as this car-free utopia doesn’t seem accurate to my experience.