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but you from south england to wales or Manchester then upto to Edinburgh youd see more variation than most of USA in culture and city

Yeah no, this is just wrong, and again completely ignoring the, “people don’t seem to understand how large the US is.”

I am aware that most of our large cities were designed around automobiles, but there’s (literally) countless smaller cities and towns that vary wildly in appearance, tradition, population, etc. 99% of which you will never even hear about as a European.

For example, do a quick Google search to see how many boroughs are in New Jersey alone. Then look at how small NJ is compared to the rest of the nation.

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Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

you can drive pretty much anywhere in the state of NJ, and be unable to swing a cat without hitting a world class pizza place, great Chinese food, amazing sushi, Mexican, Thai, etc. etc. Like quite literally the best pizza in the world.

The food you will find in a literal hole in the ground in Paterson fucking NJ is better than most of what you can find from South England to Edinburgh.

Is that it? Food, that isn’t even your food. Food of the immigrants your nation absolutely despises yet all your culture and reasons to come are for the immigrants like the African community, native American, amazing diverse food that wouldn’t exist without the immigrants.

I can’t deny, you definitely have more variation, but also the fastest and most obese nation on earth, so I’m good, id rather eat in Edinburgh where my healthcare is actually free. And every city looks different and unique, our roads and highways respect the nature and history of the nation and even do UK, isn’t that great, it’s a hell of a lot better than America (apart from the cold and rain(

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