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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They totally have suburban yuck in Hungary and the Czech Republic.[/quote]
Suburban lifestyle is present and available in any European country.  It's just that little American girls on their senior year trip don't get to see it. So they come back thinking "Europe" is about drinking coffee all day, sidewalk restaurants, wine at lunch and oh, "culture." Unfortunately, they continue to perpetuate the cliches while stateside. [/quote]

Or maybe when we go over there TO WORK in our 20s and 30s...we live in the city!  Who would have guessed?!  That's where the work is, that's where the fun  is.[/quote]

Oh dear, you sort of ought to drop the Europe thing. It just isn't helping, because the lifestyle you describe is great because it is urban, not really because it is "European".

Of course, Europe boasts some of the world's great cities, and yes, our little District really, really should aspire to join them, as NYC has done in the last 100 years and as a handful of other US cities (DC probably included because of its progress in the last decade) have gotten a little closer.

But you get into some trouble when you attribute urban-ness to "Europe" as a non-specific whole. You ought to know the whole continent is a much more diverse and complicated place than that, and that there is no shortage of suburban sloth outside of these urban centers.

You're not wrong about a certain hostility to urban life having historically formed some very fundamental ideas of American-ness (Thomas Jefferson, anyone?) and that this has been an influential driver of attitudes here ever since. Just saying that post-War Europe hasn't been immune to bad development, either.[/quote]

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