Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else

Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by Bayart on Monday November 02, 2020 @03:34PM (#24972915)

>Anyone who travels to Europe is shocked at home, food, and car sizes. Sure there is beauty and history, but the standard of living seems significantly worse off

It's not the first time I've talked about it on HN, but from an EU point of view making a connection between house/car/food size and standards of living is baffling.

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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by CapricornNoble on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:22PM (#24973551)

>>>from an EU point of view making a connection between house/car/food size and standards of living is baffling

Humanity has probably spent ~5,000 years with the aristocracy upgrading their dwellings to something larger and more permanent than a closet-sized hovel. Same for possession of personal conveyances larger and more capable than one's own two feet. We can debate whether it is healthy, or philosophically ideal, but it certainly isn't a uniquely American phenomenon, and shouldn't be baffling, when viewed in the context of human civilization's habits of material acquisitiveness.

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Re:Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else by emteycz on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:11AM (#24977209)

That's a very idealistic view of Europeans.

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