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> You ride the public transport to work and your counterpart drives his luxury SUV. Oh, it's way worse. Within 10 minutes' walking distance from my home, I hav
by mopsi 3y ago
> You ride the public transport to work and your counterpart drives his luxury SUV.
Oh, it's way worse. Within 10 minutes' walking distance from my home, I have a professional theatre, a concert hall, a cinema, a library, multiple very good schools, museums, several shopping centers, hundreds of bars and restaurants, a farmers market, and a ton of other places. I'm naughty and barely consume anything to visit those places, not even a drop of petrol. I'm so deprived of luxury that I walk to work like a Depression-era pauper.
- sugarplant 3y agono way! in america we don't have any of those things!
- asdajksah2123 3y agoWithin a 10 min walking distance of a US suburb? Soccer moms was a phrase invented in the US for a reason.
- sugarplant 3y agothe key difference is that the american can choose to live in the city and enjoy these cutesy activities. in a lot of european countries, owning a home seems extremely difficult without inheriting, so they have no choice but to rent i think the op framed the argument in a way that will make a lot of people react negatively
- helij 3y agoHome ownership[0][1] is pretty much on par US vs EU. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ownership_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne... [1]https://eyeonhousing.org/2015/06/a-cross-country-comparison-of-homeownership-rates/ https://eyeonhousing.org/2015/06/a-cross-country-comparison-... A lot of myths in this whole thread.
- Spooky23 3y agoNot really. We’ve turned most cities into ghettos to store poor people, so you need to either be connected to get into the better public schools, or have the cash to go private. The countryside is similar.