Henry
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Zappo said:Mmm, where I live we're used to having hundreds of years old buildings lying around. After a while, it doesn't feel much special. Heck, my city is something like 3000 years old. Really, I'm more impressed by the way Americans find it normal to travel 200 km to visit a friend.
Zappo brings up another point - mass transit is far more common in Europe than the U.S. - We think it nothing to go 100 miles to another city or state to visit friends - yet that's a LOT of fuel by, say UK or Italy standards. Americans pay anywhere from $1.35 to $2.00 per gallon - Europeans pay the equivalent of - what - $5.00 per gallon? If I paid that much per gallon, I couldn't even afford to go to work from where I live! I make a 70 mile (about 112 km) round trip each day to go to work.