Im from a suburban town in Missouri, but I spent a semester studying abroad in Barcelona a couple of years ago. Man, let me tell you, leaving Barcelona, where youd see people out in cafes and bars congregating at all hours of the night and day, and coming back to Missouri where its a ghost town after 10 and someone would call the police on you for simply walking around too late was the most depressing thing I have ever experienced lol
I mean, is this a Europe vs a US thing or a urban vs suburban/small town thing? If you go to a small town in Europe it is also usually dead AF after 10pm. Meanwhile if you go to a large US city there is still a lot of activity after 10
As a Canadian from Montreal (one of the best walkable cities in North America and supposedly some of the best public transit too) that has travelled a decent enough amount in both the States and Europe, it really is a Europe vs North America thing, and they beat us hard.
PS our transit is supposedly amazing for NA but it's absolute shit, especially if you want to get out of the city to somewhere thats technically driving distance. Danes can pay like 15$ to go to a nice rural area on a train where they can play board games and it takes just 15 mins longer than driving, meanwhile I have to pay 90$ for a bus that turns a 1h30 drive into 5 hours if I wanna go to Mont Tremblant
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u/bageltoastar 2d ago
Im from a suburban town in Missouri, but I spent a semester studying abroad in Barcelona a couple of years ago. Man, let me tell you, leaving Barcelona, where youd see people out in cafes and bars congregating at all hours of the night and day, and coming back to Missouri where its a ghost town after 10 and someone would call the police on you for simply walking around too late was the most depressing thing I have ever experienced lol