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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 648604" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>You know there is a reason for us to use our cars so much more though...I think some people in Europe just don't get how BIG the US is. Even in our smallish town of less than 45,000 people, it takes 15 minutes by car to get from end to end by car and public transportation sucks. When we were planning our trip in 2010, I spent a lot of time on Trip Advisor forums and I mentioned on the Belgium forum that my husband's uncle was picking us up at the airport, an hour and a half from his house. Some people were horrified that I would impose on him, making him come all that way. To us, that's just not a big deal. I've driven an hour and a half just to go shopping! Seriously, my girlfriend and I used to just hop in a car and drive that far because we had the urge to go to a certain mall. And that's about what we'd normally drive to pick up someone from an airport. </p><p></p><p>Not that we're not lazy...but our cars are just so much a part of our lives because we have to drive so much. In places like New York City, I suspect people are generally slimmer because they do walk so much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 648604, member: 17309"] You know there is a reason for us to use our cars so much more though...I think some people in Europe just don't get how BIG the US is. Even in our smallish town of less than 45,000 people, it takes 15 minutes by car to get from end to end by car and public transportation sucks. When we were planning our trip in 2010, I spent a lot of time on Trip Advisor forums and I mentioned on the Belgium forum that my husband's uncle was picking us up at the airport, an hour and a half from his house. Some people were horrified that I would impose on him, making him come all that way. To us, that's just not a big deal. I've driven an hour and a half just to go shopping! Seriously, my girlfriend and I used to just hop in a car and drive that far because we had the urge to go to a certain mall. And that's about what we'd normally drive to pick up someone from an airport. Not that we're not lazy...but our cars are just so much a part of our lives because we have to drive so much. In places like New York City, I suspect people are generally slimmer because they do walk so much. [/QUOTE]
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