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Re:Train burglaries in LA by Youden on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:35AM (#29931963)
You'll have to be more specific than "EU" because I've never seen an American-style SUV in Western Europe. Closest I can get is a crossover SUV like a Mercedes GLA.
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Re:Train burglaries in LA by null_object on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:49AM (#29932077)
> I've never seen an American-style SUV in Western Europe

I was actually thinking about these SUVs this morning, as their were two Cadillac Escalades [0] parked on my block in central Stockholm as I walked my kid to school. The town is *full* of these types of vehicles (there are even full-size Hummers driving around).

The "EU" can't be characterized in this uniform way - the different countries are totally unlike each other in so many respects. Because Sweden is part of Scandinavia, people often think there's a cycling culture here for instance - but that's also totally untrue. The same is true of our gun-crime - with criminal gangs frequently shooting each other on the streets: such a thing was virtually unknown to me throughout the time I lived in central London.

The true picture is way more nuanced than the Europe vs USA binary that people like to imagine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Escalade

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Re:Train burglaries in LA by ploek on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:03AM (#29932595)
I guess it's always a question of perspective. Coming from Germany, there definitely is _more_ of a cycling culture in Sweden than in Germany. The cycling infrastructure is better and better maintained (snow plowing, etc.). Of course that is also a generalization, as the differences can be big within a country as well. (My frame of reference for Sweden is mostly Uppsala)

But the noticeable presence of SUV and even Pickup models I usually associate with the US in Sweden also surprised me. Those are rare in Germany.

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Re:Train burglaries in LA by arethuza on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:59AM (#29932148)
What I've noticed in the UK is that large SUVs are far more common in wealthy areas of cities than they are in rural areas.
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Re:Train burglaries in LA by vidarh on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:28AM (#29932348)
In London at least they're often referred to as "Chelsea tractors" (Chelsea being one of the wealthiest parts of London)., and you're entirely correct according to this article[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/07/stereoty...

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Re:Train burglaries in LA by dagw on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:50AM (#29932497)
I've never seen an American-style SUV in Western Europe.

I see several of them every day here in Sweden. And I saw at least as many last time I was in London.

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