Some people in Silicon Valley like to complain that Europe can't innovate. Yesterday I took a 190 mile per hour train underwater from London to Brussels in less than two hours. That inability to innovate would be welcome in California's transport system anytime.
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Perhaps higj quality rail can only exist with subsidy? Perhaps Europeans have chosen to have decent trains, and maybe the European model works for Europe. Who knows? You seem irked by this.
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And Europeans don't seem to realize the original tweet and linked storm wasn't addressed to them, but to Americans. The point is that many Americans fetishize the European lifestyle. I know, I was one of them. Then I got an EU passport, lived there (again) for a while....
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There's much to be said for the European lifestyle. Also, there are some real drawbacks. The Americans who spend all of three days and like the trains never realize that. Because of course they never move there. That's what this thread is about.
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What about the european lifestyle did you dislike?
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Nothing, it's fabulous. On average, higher than in the US. Of course, that's not true for the 10% (better in the US). More like the place felt like a museum. Sorry to say, but Europe is somnolent. The US is nuts, but it's also dynamic. The action is here right now.
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So... you didn't go out to restaurants, didn't work in anything remotely interesting. Your idea of dynamic remits to violence and ephemeral shit which just *might* not be that interesting in societies with centuries of actual high culture? Just a thought
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And have you ever thought about your country's contribution to the global warming? Have you ever thought what it will cost to you? A lot more than european trains...
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Holy cow, take a chill pill man! Oh, and PS - find me an an airport or road network without subsidy
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Have you thought that thanks to better and cheaper public transportation people can benefit from it in order to escape poverty? And if people are less poor they pay more taxes and so the government finally doesn't lose anything?
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