• duane_d_bathtub@infosec.pubEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    They’ve clearly never shopped at Costco. I can’t get out of there without dropping at least $200. Because, you don’t know you need a package of 50 AAA batteries, a gallon of mustard, 300 allergy pills, and a dozen rolls of Christmas wrapping paper until you’re there. Inside Costco that just makes sense.

      • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Europe is relatively small but their towns are waaay more compact because they were built before cars came around so most towns are already in favor of walking/biking distances.

        But yeah America is huuuge. The drive from Paris to central Switzerland is about 12 and a half hours and it’s a total change of scenery. For the US that’s just California to Utah. Or Washington DC to Charleston SC.

        What the US needs badly is high speed rail from city to city

        • tyler@programming.dev
          1·
          8 months ago

          I mean we do need that, but that has nothing to do with the problem. the majority of people don’t live in those vast expanses of nothingness. Most of our cities are just as populated as most European cities, we just have shit laws around zoning, single family housing, population density, NIMBYs blocking any change, and people that think public transit is for poor people. They don’t travel to other countries and so have no clue how good things could actually be.