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Originally Posted by Hitch
(I do get that many urban lifestyles eschew the auto. I lived that way myself for a while, in NYC "back in..." OTOH, I've always found that when the cow eats the cabbage or things go horribly wrong, like "need ER," a car is a pretty important thing to own.)
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Reminds me of that old saw about the difference between Europe and North America. I think it was Diana Gabaldon who phrased it:
An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.