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I’m from the US and moved to the Netherlands but there are still some things I prefer about the US (bug screens on windows for instance)

>bug screens on windows for instance

You can retrofit those on the cheap even in rentals. Hardly something major.

Yeah and we have them but it’s annoying when you’re choosing between roasting or getting absolutely eaten alive by bugs in an Airbnb in Killarney.

And? What's the gotcha you're implying?

That you clearly value other things the US offers over the transit situation. If the transit matters that much, making the US such an unlivable hellscape, why stay?

I think that's probably the point they're trying to make.

IMO that doesn't mean we shouldn't bother to make the transit better, but some people think its somehow related. A lot of people think the "success" of the US is strongly correlated to this suburbia design somehow.

Right, I assumed the same argument. I've spent over half my life here, so it's obviously not that important to me, nor was it a factor in my decision to move here. Yet it's an observation I can make, having two distinct perspectives to compare, not a judgment on America. Ugh. It's the whole "yet you participate in society" meme, or the "well, if you don't like it, why not go home?" argument, which could well both be logical fallacies I don't know the names of.

Anyway, more public transit for the people and all that.

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