On the margins, it’s probably a lot easier for an American to find a quiet spot in the house to work — US homes are on average about 50% larger than European on

On the margins, it’s probably a lot easier for an American to find a quiet spot in the house to work — US homes are on average about 50% larger than European ones, and often have a spare room to use as an office. While about the same proportion of Americans live in “cities”, a city in America can be the size of some European provinces thanks to sprawl. This means that even if you live and work in the same city, your commute can be well over an hour each way. This, combined with kids getting dismissed from school at 3pm and having nowhere to go but home thanks to unwalkable streets and a hyper-aggressive CPS essentially criminalizing leaving your 12 year old unsupervised for 15 minutes, makes going into the office a ridiculously inefficient proposition for families.