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Few or no European suburbs are as vast as your American suburbs (think Houston, Atlanta or the Bay area). In my home country (Denmark) young families now tend t
by flexie 12y ago
Few or no European suburbs are as vast as your American suburbs (think Houston, Atlanta or the Bay area). In my home country (Denmark) young families now tend to stay in city centers rather than moving to suburbs so the trend is reverse.
Also, European cities generally have much better public transportation such as really decent busses, trolley busses, light rails, subways, trains, and trams.
Finally, I suspect a mile driven by 30-60 year olds are generally safer than a mile driven by teenagers. Europe has older population and few teenage drivers.
- spdustin 12y agoLiving in the Chicago area for most of my adult life, but visiting Houston frequently, I find myself longing for the long access roads / frontage roads that are prevalent around the Houston loop. It's a nice buffer between long-haul highways and shorter-haul-but-not-quite-local roads.
- ZenoArrow 12y agoThere are certainly Europeans that engage in long commutes. In the UK, many people who work in London commute from outside, sometimes multiple hours each way, but you're right, public transport is widely used, those aforementioned London commuters tend to rely on trains. Perhaps London is a special case because it's so expensive to live there, but in general it's easy to get around the country on trains.