Comment by netule
1 day ago
I moved here from The Netherlands in 2004, and have now lived in Florida, California, and Mississippi and stayed for prolonged periods in many US cities for my job. I wouldn’t feel safe riding a bicycle anywhere here considering the speed of traffic, the size of the vehicles, and lack of dedicated biking infrastructure. It’s a completely different world when you share the road with angry F150 drivers blasting past you at 80 MPH. No, thank you.
And drivers who themselves would never ride a bike. They see you as a nuisance.
We Dutch just hate both. If I'm on bike I hate all car drivers. If I'm in car I hate all bicycle drivers.
I think that is a general vibe. Mixing very different types of transportation on same road will always cause trouble.
That is a cute sentiment, because I imagine it pales in comparison to the loathing these groups feel towards each other in North America.
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I’m from the US and moved to the Netherlands but there are still some things I prefer about the US (bug screens on windows for instance)
>bug screens on windows for instance
You can retrofit those on the cheap even in rentals. Hardly something major.
And? What's the gotcha you're implying?
That you clearly value other things the US offers over the transit situation. If the transit matters that much, making the US such an unlivable hellscape, why stay?
I think that's probably the point they're trying to make.
IMO that doesn't mean we shouldn't bother to make the transit better, but some people think its somehow related. A lot of people think the "success" of the US is strongly correlated to this suburbia design somehow.
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