I get a picture[this was before the last 2 posts-it take me hours to type]
I mean i get a general picture from your answers
JimH
I see around me in France,UK and here that for most women,computer is more like a car: a man thing.I do not know of a couple with the wife spending long time on the computer-kids or not,micro-oven food or home cooking food-I mean at home ,not at work.
The other side of it ,is that women may want they music on computer,but just to play it.Not to spend more time to get tags,sleeves than listening to the music as MOST of us do.
Sure most of us are not teenager anymore.And sure we have more money and time to spend.If you have the same job for decades,when kids grow up,house without mortgage ,you have more money left every months.
I do have a strong feeling that most ricains here are well educated.Because of it this place is not a very sorry average american forum[the bottom line to me is french forums,not US ones by the way]
Kind of Jim Harrison versus Eminen
Is this because of the % of grey hairs here?Or just because of a general feeling from the place,no matter the color of hairs?
In other hand you have young people here as well,Nila,Mouse and many others.You even have some charming sex people.Not a bad mix
Gateley
Spain is a great catastrophe on the urbanisation [?] level
When you see the belt of ugly hudge houses buildings and towers around any town in Spain,you get chills
But you cannot compare Europe and USA.Town was a close and safe place with walls around the city.No room for gardens and parcs.The town was alway crowded.
And the implantation of towns had other criteria than in USA.
Communication first.near the sea, in a valley with access to other valleys and plains.Many times on the traditional ways of invasions to block them.
Climat and water.Go to the gorgious south of Spain:heat and no water.
Also 'industries' was important
Agriculture,food,wool at the start,coal,iron and other latter
Most of the old towns in Europe do not have much 'green spaces'If they have some,like Jardin des Tuileries in Paris,it is because the king was living there and had 'his private garden'
Not the case in London.But have a look: the sea as frontier and the problematic frontier[Scotland] far from London.
Only the very heart[Oxford street,Picadilly,Totenham court road]are buildings crowded and green less
Concerning my question,as i said i got a picture
In fact only people move ,not places of work
You live in the country side ,but your life is not only in the country side.
I mean JRiver is not out of town in a village near a lac.Workers from JRiver have a house near a lac or a swamp.
I cannot compare with Israel,but with France.
Look like there is two main differences: in big towns a lot of trains,tram,buses,many -if not most- used public transports instead of car
Many people travel more than one hour from work to home to reach hudge homes buildings,towers NOT houses
There is another problem in France.From the heart of Paris ,if you draw a 120 kilometers circle,you have around 36 millions people living here out of a total population of around 66-67 millions people
Sure France is not USA ,but not a small country as well.Center,south center of France is empty,i mean really empty,not a way to say things
Many work places moved out of town,CMagic says he is 30 kilometers south of Paris,and i am sure he is working where he lives.
But i am surprised that in USA it looks like work places stay in town
There is any need for hight teck places to be in town?
The "MachineHead's Best Buy" is in town? Why not in a small town near a big one?
I have the same feeling that AlonsoN about living in town.In Paris schools are not the mean problem,average flat a 2 rooms flat a problem for family.
London is like villages one close to an other.You have always "your local shops",no matter where you live.There is no need to go to center of town,you get allmost all in "your village"
Here ,there is allmost no country side.One hour drive ,you change town!
I would like H.T.H. to post a map of Israel and a map of any US state at the same scale,you may understand what i mean,and understand many more things as well.
You can put 10 times Israel in Minnesota,more or less
JimH
What is a mojito?
By the way did i tell you once that i love Jim Harrison and the quality of life in London?[with a fair income,this is true]