Situated on that pink cloud right outside of reality.. Watch out Netherlands... : comments.
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Yeah, it's pretty different around here. Our traffic is based on both cars and bicycles (I know this amused and amazes the hell out of many visiting foreigners, so as it is I cycle to anything within about 45 minutes to an hour cycling distance (this is very normal) and for the rest we have a fairly closely knit network of trains and busses.
I think my whole country might be as big or smaller than Arizona ^^;;;
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Oh believe me, I WISH our system was more like yours! I love the Japanese system of trains/subway and wish that more people in the US would wake up and realize that it's a better way to transport people. We have a lot of bikes here too, but the system is definitely NOT built for them, and I am seriously scared to ride my bikes on a lot of roads at rush hour!
(Also, wow - the Netherlands is 16,033 sq mi and AZ is 114,000 sq mi. I know we are known in the SouthWest for wide open spaces and vast mountain ranges, but damn!)
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O.O Holy cow! I knew my country was smaller than many US states, but that´s about 9 times as big! Wow. Just... Wow.
We manage to squeeze about 17.000.000 people on our 16.000 square miles though! :P And, if we're throwing around facts anyway, more bikes than we have people :D
Our public transport is pretty good, even if we do absolutely adore to complain about it (like now, we have maybe 2,5 cm of snow (which, is memory serves, is a little more than or about the same as one inch) and I took an hour longer to make a journey that should've lasted maybe 40 minutes).
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I can sympathize with people getting screwy when it gets cold, though. Since it rarely rains or snows in this part of the state, people FREAK OUT when it starts raining. They drive like crazy people! They either freak out and drive so slow that they're a hazard, or the drive way too fast not realizing that their braking time isn't the same on wet roads. Bah!
So be careful when you do get your license because I'm sure that people are crazy drivers no matter what continent you live on! (I don't have a winter-themed icon, but Sensei looks cold in this one, so I guess it works!) :)
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Hmmm it was the public transport that went all weird. You get a couple of snowflakes and suddenly it get's delayed all over the place. But yes, people also start to drive like traffic hazards. I had one of those idiots in front of my car when I was taking my driving exam. Handled it well enough I'd say! ^___^
*laughs* We have so much rain that people don't really seem to care. The idea of getting so crazy over driving in the rain sounds like a joke to me, but then I see how the Dutch drive in the snow and I completely believe you.
Hmmm I think I know what you mean about the summer being too hot. Some days in summer I hide inside here and than it's only about 30 degrees Celcius. I don't know how hot it gets there, but I'm sure it's hotter than that. I really don't handle heat well.
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I heard that England was all clogged up because of the snow - sounds like a huge pain! And it even made the American news, so it must've been a pretty darn big storm!
I really don't know much about European geography other than the basic country outlines o.0 How close are you to the sea? Does that make it get really cold? In the summer months, it hovers anywhere from 37-44 degrees Celsius (100-112 degrees Fahrenheit) here. Gah!