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		ryanwaggoner on Sept 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Life in the Spanish city that banned cars This may be shocking to people with a European upbringing, but western Europeans own more cars per capita than Americans: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/it... Your overall point is correct about how car-centric cities are in the USA vs Europe, but just wanted to point this out.

refurb on Sept 18, 2018 [–]

For all this talk of how the US is so car-centric, every European city I've visited is absolutely packed with cars and the parking is worse than SF.

Based on how people talk about the EU, I thought it would be different, but it looks about the same as the US to me.

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