The United States is a great place. From New York to Los Angeles and covering everything in between, the U.S. boasts unprecedented diversity, natural wonder and opportunity. Americans love freedom so much, they have hot dog-eating contests on Independence Day to prove it. And good luck finding something better than a cronut.
Despite that general awesomeness, though, the U.S. isn’t the best at everything. That’s not dinging the land of the free and the home of the brave for no reason, but rather, to say that Europe just does some things better.
Here are a few arenas where the U.S. could learn a thing or two from the old country.
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Huffington could scarcely produced a more biased list.
Hogwash.
I am curious to know what our host found noteworthy in the article.
The one about mass/ public transit (I think it was #3) is a major pet peeve of mine. Your average European nation is how big? And what percentage of it is urban?
The distances involved and amount of empty space covered does not compare between the U.S. and say, Sweden. It’s like comparing a mustard seed to a watermelon.
Well # 4, the city of Stockholm metropolitan area covers 2500 square miles which would compare with many a US east coast metro area. Less so Mid West, of course, and points west. I have not compared the stats of London and NY, but I would guess that their reach is pretty similar. I did travel in Chicago on the elevated railway and buses not long ago and thought that the railway was shockingly dated and outworn, and the buses, although fine, had curious restrictions on the day ticket which kept on tripping me up. On the whole, though, comparisons like this Huff Post one are fun but not very revealing. Each nation/continent has its strengths and weaknesses, attractions and dissatisfactions.