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Is there any other country that is built for individual automobile transportation the way the US is? I haven't been to France but have you been to Amsterdam, B
by sleepyhead 12y ago
Is there any other country that is built for individual automobile transportation the way the US is?
I haven't been to France but have you been to Amsterdam, Berlin or Copenhagen?
It is perfectly valid to criticize US without it being "the US is strange and stupid"
- bane 12y agoYeah sure. Australia struck me as very "american" in feeling. Lots of the new Chinese development is specially car friendly. Same with new Russian development. I was surprised with how unfriendly Ireland was to anything but a car.
- hessenwolf 12y agoIt's amazing when you get further out into the country in the Republic. There's almost no option to safely get down the road unless you are in a vehicle.
- mikeash 12y agoIt's perfectly valid to criticize the US based on how the US is. It's not valid to criticize it based on some notion that the US is unique in a way that it is not. I have no problem with stuff like "the US should...." Where I have a problem is with "everybody else does it another way" when it's just not true. Aside from adopting the metric system, I can't think of any legitimate criticism that fits that mold. Bicycles certainly don't seem to.