One thing that really bothered me about Americans when I lived there was how often they just packed up everything and moved into a new house. Not for any good

One thing that really bothered me about Americans when I lived there was how often they just packed up everything and moved into a new house. Not for any good reason, mind you, but just for 'the experience of having a new place to live in'. Coming from a country where there was nothing beyond the city limits for 4 days worth of driving, it was bizarre to me that American folks I knew found themselves restless after 6 months in the new place. I suppose the urban environments of America sort of promote this, though - there is very little you can do in most of America without having transportation, and the 'neighborhood feeling' you get in Europe that makes it so 'nice to walk around' just doesn't exist in the majority of American cities, with their sprawl. Sure, there are exceptions - New York (people rave about New York, but really its just a 'kind of Europe' sort of place), San Francisco, and so on, but given your average American city, its sort of no surprise that people don't really feel 'at home' most of the time. Is it car culture that drives Americans to move around so much? I tend to think so.