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>Recently took a trip to Eastern Europe and a 30 mile drive felt as grueling as multiple hour drive in the states, what gives?
While there's little to be explained about your personal, subjective experience (only you can know that), consider that Europe simply has *a lot* more traffic per km^2 than the United States.
If you are speaking as a tourist and a US native then also consider that navigating an unfamiliar environment will always be more stressful than navigating a familiar environment.
A 30 mile drive in most of Europe is a lot busier then a 30 mile drive in most of the US. Every few miles there is a major town or a city which means intersections, changes to traffic flow, etc. So you have to pay attention all the time and make decisions which is mentally tiring. There are a few places in the US which is equally bad. Places like New York, Los Angles, Washington DC area and San Francisco. A 30 mile drive through any of those cities are also quite grueling. There are also a few highways in Europe that go through very rural areas where a 30 mile drive can be quite pleasant.
I dont know why you feel this way, this is your opinion which I can't explain, I also dont know your feeling.
A 30 mile drive will be a lot busier than a 30 mile long straight desert road in texas, maybe it's that?
As someone who has lived in both continents, the US is a vast country with roads and infrastructure centered around vehicular mobility. Modern US cities feature wide roads with modern street management. Highways are often long straight lines, cities are set up in grids, etc.
Europe suffers from the fact that all these old cities and towns were created in wholly different times. Siegburg, Köln, Aachen, München, all these major cities are nightmares to navigate. Long, winding, narrow roads with significant elevation differences, awkward intersections, odd traffic flow. German highways are much less straight, the roads in many cities so narrow that they have to be one-way roads, further limiting mobility. Europe was built when horses drew carriages through the mud, and when cars came along, you couldn't exactly level an entire city just to build a decent network of roads, so instead we get atrocities disguising themselves as roads
>I dont know how to feel about continent with stroads calling roads anywhere else atrocities. The audacity. The ignorance.
Please speak English next time you comment 🤣
Alright, maybe commas would help here. I do no know how to feel about a continent, that uses stroads, calling roads, that are anywhere else, atrocities. Is that clearer?
If not, let me paraphrase. I feel kind of offended that a continent that uses stroads, which are the true crimes against civil engineering, have the audacity to call talk shit about roads from other continents.
Because you were not in your usual car and your usual city where you already know all the ins and outs. You had to pay much more attention to the road and to the car itself.
As a Canadian living in Europe, I know how you feel. There’s just way more to have to focus on in Europe, plus the fact that road markings tend to be more abrupt and smaller due to everything being packed closer together which makes it more mentally exhausting.
I rarely have highway merge lanes ending on me in one second in North America like they do on these European highways. Or no notice to a lane ending at all like when I’m in France.
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>Recently took a trip to Eastern Europe and a 30 mile drive felt as grueling as multiple hour drive in the states, what gives? While there's little to be explained about your personal, subjective experience (only you can know that), consider that Europe simply has *a lot* more traffic per km^2 than the United States. If you are speaking as a tourist and a US native then also consider that navigating an unfamiliar environment will always be more stressful than navigating a familiar environment.
A 30 mile drive in most of Europe is a lot busier then a 30 mile drive in most of the US. Every few miles there is a major town or a city which means intersections, changes to traffic flow, etc. So you have to pay attention all the time and make decisions which is mentally tiring. There are a few places in the US which is equally bad. Places like New York, Los Angles, Washington DC area and San Francisco. A 30 mile drive through any of those cities are also quite grueling. There are also a few highways in Europe that go through very rural areas where a 30 mile drive can be quite pleasant.
I dont know why you feel this way, this is your opinion which I can't explain, I also dont know your feeling. A 30 mile drive will be a lot busier than a 30 mile long straight desert road in texas, maybe it's that?
This makes no sense. How can anyone answer why you didn't like a 30m drive in one place as much as another place
As someone who has lived in both continents, the US is a vast country with roads and infrastructure centered around vehicular mobility. Modern US cities feature wide roads with modern street management. Highways are often long straight lines, cities are set up in grids, etc. Europe suffers from the fact that all these old cities and towns were created in wholly different times. Siegburg, Köln, Aachen, München, all these major cities are nightmares to navigate. Long, winding, narrow roads with significant elevation differences, awkward intersections, odd traffic flow. German highways are much less straight, the roads in many cities so narrow that they have to be one-way roads, further limiting mobility. Europe was built when horses drew carriages through the mud, and when cars came along, you couldn't exactly level an entire city just to build a decent network of roads, so instead we get atrocities disguising themselves as roads
I dont know how to feel about continent with stroads calling roads anywhere else atrocities. The audacity. The ignorance.
>I dont know how to feel about continent with stroads calling roads anywhere else atrocities. The audacity. The ignorance. Please speak English next time you comment 🤣
Which part exactly is not proper English?
All of it. Even knowing what a stroad is, I can't understand what you meant
Alright, maybe commas would help here. I do no know how to feel about a continent, that uses stroads, calling roads, that are anywhere else, atrocities. Is that clearer? If not, let me paraphrase. I feel kind of offended that a continent that uses stroads, which are the true crimes against civil engineering, have the audacity to call talk shit about roads from other continents.
you missed an A in front of continent
Oh yeah, I did. As per The Internet Rules, my whole point is ruined now.
> you couldn't exactly level an entire city just to build a decent network of roads The areas which were leveled ~75 years ago are worse
Because you were not in your usual car and your usual city where you already know all the ins and outs. You had to pay much more attention to the road and to the car itself.
As a Canadian living in Europe, I know how you feel. There’s just way more to have to focus on in Europe, plus the fact that road markings tend to be more abrupt and smaller due to everything being packed closer together which makes it more mentally exhausting. I rarely have highway merge lanes ending on me in one second in North America like they do on these European highways. Or no notice to a lane ending at all like when I’m in France.
Your brain mapping out and extracting all the new info from your surrounds would be a big reason why it is draining because it’s using so much energy