Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story

Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by aidenn0 on Friday August 05, 2022 @08:27AM (#32355119)

Some of it is just how pervasive car ownership is in the US, how young of an age you can get licensed, and the degree to which parents are expected to drive children under the age of 16.

I did an exchange to a rural village in Germany, and anything other than going to a party at someone's house in the village involved convincing (or bribing) one of the 18 year olds they knew from two years previous at the Realschule, so the most common evening event was drinking beer (or Diesel which was half beer, half cola) with friends.

This place was not even remotely rural by USA standards, being maybe 20 kilometers from the state capital, and even closer to another city.

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Re:Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records te... by moooo99 on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:02PM (#32360464)

> anything other than going to a party at someone's house in the village involved convincing (or bribing) one of the 18 year olds they knew from two years previous at the Realschule, so the most common evening event was drinking beer (or Diesel which was half beer, half cola) with friends.

This has been my experience growing up as well with the only difference that we had a somewhat decent train connection to the next bigger town (30 min train ride, but last train departured at 10 PM). Anything that was out of the (small) village required either an expensive (and unreliable) Taxi ride or someone who loosed out and became the dedicated driver.

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