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Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by throwaway2037 on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @11:48PM (#41855423)
Why do people on HN think the US is special about (quantity of) driving? All wealthy non-microstate nations are driving nations. And, they drive a lot. That includes Australia.
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Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by aucisson_masque on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @02:05AM (#41856040)
Bicycle are pretty common in Europe, infrastructures are designed around it and pedestrian since the middle 90's.

Most people still have a car but you wouldn't think about taking the car to go buy bread for instance.

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Re:Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 3... by bamboozled on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:48AM (#41868728)
Having lived in Europe, Australia, worked in US and Japan, I guess I have pretty unique experience with this.

Americans walk the least out of all, followed by Australians. When I visit the the US for work. People sometimes stop and asked me if I'm ok because I'm carrying my groceries home from the store. People would say: "What are you doing? do you need help?" lol

Virtually nowhere is designed for walking outside of say New York, parts of San Fran etc.

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