Americans Are Pretty Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off

Re:Americans Are Pretty Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by Barrin92 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:08PM (#27595806)

a lot of things in the US are larger (including unfortunately the people itself), however that's not necessarily an indicator of a better quality of life.

The large houses and cars in particular have quite adverse social impacts. Low density living increases commute times, infrastructure cost, cost of housing, energy usage, and so forth. It's quite astonishing that the co2 emissions per capita in the US are almost three times as high as in the United Kingdom.

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Re:Americans Are Pretty Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by inglor_cz on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:16PM (#27595895)

TBH British homes do not need as much heating/cooling due to the local climate, plus the density of population in Southeast England is crazy and commute times high as well. I wouldn't like to live in such an anthill.

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Re:Americans Are Pretty Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by liberalbias998 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:33PM (#27596128)

Our houses usually being tiny and connected to two other ones helps on the heating bills; its a shared effort.

Cooling is opening the window; turning on a fan and sweating your nads off. But only for a few weeks a year.

The rest of the year the incessant drizzle and grey sky helps cool the building.

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Re:Americans Are Pretty Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off by simfree on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:15PM (#27595881)

Our lives here in the US certainly aren't 3x better than the UK, and for a large chunk of our country they would have a better life in the UK due to the NHS.

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