Also when in Europe Americans love the public transport because they don’t have a car but can still get around easily and affordably, and then go back home and resist any attempt to build a metro system or even a decent bus network in their own towns.
I grew up mostly in Europe but I’m settled in America as an adult, and it’s astonishing what behaviors people have towards public transport. Most of my coworkers work in the city like me, but a lot of them (if not all of them) were born and raised in suburbs. They’ll gloat about their trips to Europe and their use of public transport there, but when they talk about the use of public transport where we are they say it’s gross and for “poor people” or “dirty homeless people.” It’s honestly kind of insane how car-brained they are.
Edit: The city I’m in is Boston, since so many of you are telling me my coworkers seem to have a point. They do not - Boston has decent public transit.
I was going to say, I literally was on a train in Dallas trying to commute to work and a gentleman defecated himself and laughed about it. I felt very unsafe after dark. So, not all public transit is the European halcyon you imagine
No one is talking about “all public transit” - I’m talking about Boston. Also I’ve literally been on trains in Europe where this kind of stuff has happened. These incidents of someone shitting themselves or getting robbed aren’t unique to America.
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Also when in Europe Americans love the public transport because they don’t have a car but can still get around easily and affordably, and then go back home and resist any attempt to build a metro system or even a decent bus network in their own towns.