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Looks nice, one thing I like about English burbs is there's usually a main street. While the houses look ok, I feel like they look mostly the same with the same brick. There'd be a bit variety in shape and color in American ones. Wooden construction helps because it can be painted different colors. Other negative to many Americans (not to me) is the yard sizes are small, not really that different from the 1940s Philly example theunbrainwashed showed.
In terms of urbanism, the american suburbs looks fine, with extensive green lawns and beautiful houses. I would like to live in a place like these. However, the lack of facilities in the nearby like hospitals, markets, drugstores and public transport is a problem. The best of the worlds would be urban areas with a suburban look and feel, but also crossed by commercial avenues, with all of the urban facilities.
Other than public transport, most American suburbs don't lack what you listed, at least not in short driving distance.
In terms of urbanism, the american suburbs looks fine, with extensive green lawns and beautiful houses. I would like to live in a place like these. However, the lack of facilities in the nearby like hospitals, markets, drugstores and public transport is a problem.
That isn't true at all, except for public transport to some degree. There is almost always stores a very short drive away and parks or forests in walking distance. The photos that Ariete shown in page number 1, are extreme and not really representative of the normal. For many suburbs there are also bus services.
In terms of urbanism, the american suburbs looks fine, with extensive green lawns and beautiful houses. I would like to live in a place like these. However, the lack of facilities in the nearby like hospitals, markets, drugstores and public transport is a problem. The best of the worlds would be urban areas with a suburban look and feel, but also crossed by commercial avenues, with all of the urban facilities.
It depends on what city you're talking about. The large cities on the east coast, for example, have a fair amount of public transportation and amenities like you describe that reach into the inner suburbs.
Who are you referring to by "we"? Many Americans are happy with the current situation, others not so much. No clue how Finns feel about their current situation. Even if the overall cost is the same in both systems, the taxpayers funded system have some advantages. For unpaid leave, families need to make sure to have enough savings, and for lower paid workers a long unpaid leave may be impractical. Overall, it trades some disposable income for more security, with bigger advantages for lower paid workers.
And yet the rates of stay at home moms are nearly identical.
How DO those American mothers do it without all those subsidies?
In terms of urbanism, the american suburbs looks fine, with extensive green lawns and beautiful houses. I would like to live in a place like these. However, the lack of facilities in the nearby like hospitals, markets, drugstores and public transport is a problem. The best of the worlds would be urban areas with a suburban look and feel, but also crossed by commercial avenues, with all of the urban facilities.
The thing is, in many communities hospitals, markets, drugstores, etc are within just a few minutes' drive. Generally speaking, Americans like their cars and the freedom and autonomy that driving a car to places offers.
Within a three minute drive of my house I have two different clinics from the two main hospitals in the area (urgent care clinics as well as doctors offices), a coffee shop, a beautiful grocery store stocked with plenty of fresh food, a drug store, several locally owned restaurants, a hardware store, the public library, two gyms, not to mention a pretty wide range of various smaller shops, locally owned. I live in a small town of about 3000 and it's a "bedroom community" (some would call it the suburbs) of a metro area of about 200,000. So if I want more amenities I drive about 15 minutes into the larger city. If I want more amenities than that, I can drive an hour and a half to Dallas, but I don't do that very often because there's no need.
It's just a different lifestyle - most Americans prefer to drive themselves around rather than using public transportation, though public transportation is available in all metro areas I know of.
Heck, whenever we visit Europe, my husband and I rent a car rather than relying on public transportation. We prefer driving ourselves wherever we want to go whenever we want to go there.
Would you be suprised if I told you that there actually lives many american citizens in that Norwegian city
That's actually pretty cookie-cutter as well...
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