On 20/10/2012 8:33 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/20/2012 10:53, Darren New wrote:
>> On 10/20/2012 10:28, Stephen wrote:
>>> On 20/10/2012 6:15 PM, Darren New wrote:
>>>> On 10/7/2012 3:33, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>>
>>>>> It's almost close enough to /walk/ to work.
>>>>
>>>> TIL brits don't go outdoors. :-)
>>>
>>> Strange! And here's me thinking that it was Americans who had
>>> forgotten how
>>> to walk. I've heard that you only go outdoors in an automobile.
>>
>> That's just Los Angelos. San Diego walks everywhere.

And I thought that Saint James rode a white horse, all the better to 
drive certain peoples out of Spain. ;-)

>
> More exactly, Americans drive more, and more probably own cars, but
> that's because Paris to Berlin is like a short commute by car for
> Americans.

I think that is a slight exaggeration, 650 miles.
But I know what you mean. Distances in America are large.


> People who live in cities usually don't take cars anywhere.
>
It depends what you call a city, doesn’t it?
Last year I was staying in the city of Hobbs NM and commuting to Eunice 
every day.
Hobbs has no public transport. No buses, except school buses, no taxis, 
except a stretch limo driven by an Elvis impersonator, to take people to 
and from the casino. So understandably people have cars and drive 
everywhere.
But how did you learn that Brits don’t go outdoors?


-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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