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In Scotland you get a free bus pass when you hit age 60 and you can use it throughout the entire country. We live in a 'semi-rural' coastal village with a town of about 12,000 ten miles away. We own a car but use it infrequently now....mainly when we have visitors from the US or when we shop for DIY stuff in the city. A bus comes past our house every hour and we also use this pass to travel around the country - free. And the local ferry is free for us as well. You'd never get something like that in the US.
England has this pass as well but it's much more restricted age-wise and area-wise.
Forgot to mention that most European cities are almost dead after 6 pm because many stores closes early.
Not here. Malls are open to 10pm.
You really need to get off your high horse. Europe is not like that. Yes there are places like that in spain and italy but in the cities like amsterdam it is more modern.
Also the united kingdom and ireland are more different to mainland europe. We have alot of american things and thats why I think we should be excluded. In spain for example houses are very poor structures and small.
Where I live we dont really have small markets. Infact markets are notcommon at all. We have more of a large shops.
True. I don't know why Americans think Europeans don't own cars. In southwestern and southeast England, almost every house had 1 or 2 cars parked in the front yard. Even the council estates had cars parked in front of them so owning a car isn't prohibitively expensive. All of my relatives in Germany of driving age own a car save for one.
They think we are all small thats why. And well we most certainly arent. And you know what I found some of the places in america far smaller than here no harm to them.
True. I don't know why Americans think Europeans don't own cars. In southwestern and southeast England, almost every house had 1 or 2 cars parked in the front yard. Even the council estates had cars parked in front of them so owning a car isn't prohibitively expensive. All of my relatives in Germany of driving age own a car save for one.
They think Europe is nothing but big cities and don't even consider all the rural areas, small villages and towns.
In most of the towns I am familiar with in Portugal the ordinary stores don't close until 7 p.m., and if it is an area that draws tourists, they close later. I don't think the OP, or many Americans, grasp the fact that on the continent, particularly in the south, cafes and bars have a bustling life - much of which takes place in the street in good weather, and Europeans walk in their cities and are not encapsulated in automobiles, expecting to go door-to-door.
I lived in Manhattan for forty years of my adult life, and I loved most that time; yet I far prefer city life in Europe.
They think we are all small thats why. And well we most certainly arent. And you know what I found some of the places in america far smaller than here no harm to them.
Definitely not. You have to get out of London, something which many American tourists never do, to appreciate how rural the rest of the country is. yes the houses are all either stuck together or have narrow openings between each one, but go outside of the cities and it's practically a different country. There's open fields and pastures as far as the eye can see. I really want to see more of Britain next time I go. I gotta rent a car next time, taking the train everywhere is actually more expensive and less convenient
Im car free, and i live in america...specifically Uptown chicago...
I lived for forty plus years in Manhattan - no car for sure. I couldn't imagine having a car in a place like Chicago or NYC.
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do you know that region?
