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Also the Netherlands is small, very densely populated nation that is almost 100% flat as a pancake.
Also those bikes like like they're horrible $1,100 for a 46 pound!!!! POS. I mean, not to get all weight weeny but jesus. It might not look all stupid hipster, but something basic like a Trek Zektor is pretty much half the price, half the weight, decent components, disc brakes.
I mean, it's not like you can't easily get Gazelles or other turn of the 20th century retro hipster bikes in the United States. It's just they're crappy bikes and are horribly overpriced.
Carbon cost more because carbon fiber is latest in high tech material to build bikes and many other weight sensitive things. It also has a nasty habit of shattering into a thousand tiny needle like fragments when wrecked.
When it comes to bike frames I believe that "steel is real".
Carbon costs less than those things. You can get full carbon bikes for $1,000 or so, less if you venture into murky waters of unknown Chinese brands without American distributors.
Why does the Philippines have cheaper and faster internet than the usa = its smaller and more densely populated.
Why does cuba have better healthcare than the usa? = it's smaller and more densely populated.
Why does japan have better schools? = it's smaller and more densely populated.
why are cellphone data speeds faster in puerto rico even though they have the same carriers as the usa? = It's smaller and more densely populated.
Somehow I think it's cop out, it's more to do with american culture and our capitalistic nature.
I live in texas where you regularly see tons of people in huge 4X4 trucks who never haul anything or go off road.
If everyone hopped on their bikes and only used their cars for long trips(like many Europeans and Asians do) gas would be 99 cent's again because exxon/mobile would be desperate to get people back into their cars.
Why does USA have more crime? USA is HUGE and diverse!
Why is healthcare expensive in USA? USA is HUGE and diverse!
Why does USA have more crime? USA is HUGE and diverse!
Why is healthcare expensive in USA? USA is HUGE and diverse!
We have higher crime because because the cost of living VS employment opportunity for the masses is out of whack. and our social programs are underfunded.
If you could earn the same money working at burger king as you could selling drugs there would be way fewer people selling drugs. and imagine if we spend 1/8 as much on social programs as we do on military spending, and law enforcement?
It has been proven that when high paying low/no skill enter level jobs go away crime rates go up.
Many of the towns and cities going through a meth explosion now are places that used to look like mayberry "before the factory closed and moved to china or south america in the name of corporate greed"
I never understood why so many people choose to work so far from home.
but jobs that allow telecommuting have been increasing dramatically in recent years as technology has made actually being at the office in person less important.
Not everyone has a tech or office job. And if you’re in the trades you go where the work is. I was in a Chicago building trades local and I worked several counties in northeast Illinois. Lots of driving.
As rents rise in trendy cities people who do service work in those cities often can’t afford to live near their job.
I never understood why so many people choose to work so far from home.
In huge metropolitan areas such as greater San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Boston, Wash.D.C., and New York City, the high cost of living and high employment rate make for an extremely competitive housing market. Blue-collar workers, teachers, public safety employees, etc. simply cannot afford housing anywhere at all close to their work, that also meets the requirements of a decent school district. They feel forced to commute extreme distances from the "Exurbs" 30, 40, 50 miles from the city center. In Los Angeles, this means living in the less-favored "Inland Empire" area. In greater Wash.D.C., exurbs such as Stafford and Gainesville VA, Waldorf and Clarksburg MD. People commute daily from Modesto to San Francisco.
I never understood why so many people choose to work so far from home.
In huge metropolitan areas such as greater San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Wash.D.C., and New York City, the high cost of living and high employment rate make for an extremely competitive housing market. Blue-collar workers, teachers, public safety employees, etc. cannot afford housing anywhere at all close to their work, that also meets the requirements of a decent school district. They feel forced to commute extreme distances from the "Exurbs" 30, 40, 50 miles from the city center.
I love the Dutch bike, and back when I lived in Minneapolis it would have been perfect (the Twin Cities, similar to the Netherlands, are also extremely flat). You frequently saw the dutch bakfiets or box bikes hauling kids around there too. I think the trend also caught on in Chicago in the mid 2010's, there were a lot of blogs etc devoted to the carfree/'Dutch' lifestyle in Midwestern US and Portland.
Now that I live in NY (not the city but hillier outskirts) I've had to regrettably forgo my urge for the Dutch bike. I still love steel bikes overall but instead of a 60lb dutch single speed I have a Surly 10 speed and a Brompton folding bike. Both are infinitely more practical for the realities of where I live. That said, I still get a bit nostalgic when I see beautiful older bikes. I have a 70's Raleigh DL-1 tourist in my garage that I brought over in the move and still can't bear to part with, but it needs to find a better home. Yes, I tell myself, the rod brakes are impractical and it's almost useless because I live on a giant hill, but...yet...
I could use a bakfiets, but I'm not likely to spend a thousand on a cargo bike when I can use a $20 trailer.
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