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It's in your head.  Nobody was belittling the choice to live the 'American Dream'. In fact, this post started out attacking urban dwellers and calling their homes shit shacks. If the respo se you got was people defending their choices---well, what did you expect?

My time in Europe was an eye-opener.  My European friends come over and rave about Target and our big fresh grocery stores.  Sometimes we want to live the exact opposite of our childhood upbringing.  In my case, I was in the suburbs for 18 years and lived moving to the city.  My sister, on the other hand, had replicated our upbringing which was wonderful.  I was the sister that went far away to college. She commuted from home.  Different choices. Not better- just different.

Relax.[/quote]

You've mischaracterized the initial post on this thread, as well as the import of the prior post discussing the purported preferences of Americans for everything big.  Obviously, people learn things when they travel about their own preferences and those of others.  However, one need not to go Europe to learn some people prefer urban living. [/quote]

No. However, it is a way of life over there.  There are no big shopping malls.  Go to Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Munich, etc and you will be outside shopping for your clothes.  It is strips and strips of walkable city centers.  We don't really have anywhere in the US that replicates this.  [b]We don't have car-free city centers.[/b]  Living in pre-war buildings and carrying your crap up 5 flights without an elevator or a lift so small that you can't even fit a suticase inside is different.  I worked out less, drank more beer and lost 15 pounds (and I wans't big to begin with) living that lifestyle.  There was also a sociability factor.  People don't drive into their driveways at 6pm and stay in for the night.  MMaybe because they don't have Costoc or big fridges or storage space they get together a lot more frequently---at least where I was.  Now--that could be why there is a crisis in Europe right now..

So yes-- unless you have lived abroad for an extensive amount of time (and with kids!) you don't get it from your big Engagment trip to Paris...[/quote]

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