[ SECRET POST #4147 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4147 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, 1941]


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[Teen Wolf]


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[The Three Investigators]


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[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]


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[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]


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[Silver Bullet]









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Comments

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

The overreliance on cars. It feels like there's very little chance to walk anywhere or ride a bike in many cities.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Oddly enough, most cities don't have a very good, reliable public transportation system.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

A huge amount of American urban development took place between the 30s and 70s, and therefore was done on car scale

Also, America has massive amounts of space compared to IE Europe and generally people took advantage of that, especially in the West

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[greghousesgf]

a lot of this is just snobbery. If you can't afford a car, you're fucked.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Or can't drive for physical reasons.

There's Uber and Lyft now, but that gets expensive. Not to mention that sometimes you'd basically be using them to cross the street (because you can't actually cross it on foot without risking being roadkill - and if you don't drive for physical reasons, that might be a legitimate concern).

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Well, that's sort of a vicious circle thing. Most cities lack pedestrian friendly infrastructure and decent public transport. If you don't have a car, you can't work, you can't get groceries, you can't live anywhere outside of city centers, etc. But cars make living well outside city centers possible, so the suburbs are usually a good distance from where people work and shop. So when new communities pop up, that's how they're planned - for people with cars.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Many towns, especially in California, that now lack public transit used to have it, until the light rail and cable car companies were bought by the automotive industry and dismantled to encourage people to buy cars.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[mrs_don_draper]

Because America is fucking huge, and buses don't go everywhere I need to go, and I fucking hate sharing transportation with people if I can avoid it.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

i work 30 miles from my home so i can't bike or walk to work. my area is too poor to put in place public transportation systems.

big cities do have several forms of public transportation and sometimes things are close enough where you can walk or bike. outside of cities there are large expanses of land that must be crossed to reach your destination. you can fit several small countries between where you live and where you have to go sometimes.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Well yeah, because of how they're laid out. Aside from some major cities like New York and maybe Chicago, most American cities don't have a good public transportation system. There aren't convenient trains everywhere, and the bus system is terrible. Not having a car is a serious obstacle to getting to and from work, or anywhere else for that matter. Like where I live now is pretty rural but I can get to town in about 15 minutes by car. Walking would take TWO HOURS. Bike would be 30 minutes, with lots of hills, on narrow country roads where people barrel down it in huge trucks at 45 mph. There is nothing nearer than that because it's all houses and farms. I live here because living in town is super expensive. I'm not over-reliant on a car, I need one so as not to be stranded in my home.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Older neighborhoods are extremely walkable, even those built into the 1950s. It's the former/current exurbs that are a problem with their lack of sidewalks and how they empty onto busy, former rural roads with no shoulders or traffic lights. It's why I won't live in places like that.

Outside of cities... look, the country us vast and there are lots and lots of towns and cities. Connecting all of them by rail would be like playing connect-the-dots with all the stars in the sky. There's no way to do it tgat is actually useable. Even back when there was more trackage and multiple passenger carriers, most towns weren't on a rail line. It's the same in other large countries.