Americans in general are already shocked about the lack of chain restaurants and large quantity of little shops. It seems to be a bit of a culture shock. One was complaining his kid could not eat anything familiar here.
Tourist guides were also saying that most Americans absolutely refuse to leave the cruise ship if there is no bus waiting. So they get info the bus, the bus drives 400 meter (quarter mile) to the destination and ask them to do disembark. They’ll always say " I could’ve walked!" while the guide internally screams at them they told them so.
You know the opposite can be said about people from Europe visiting America for the first time too. I remember years ago when I was in high school working at a gas station and a small town in Nevada. We had some Europeans show up in the middle of the night asking how far it was to San Francisco I told them it was another 12 hours from where we are currently at to be able to make it to San Francisco. They were absolutely aghast at the size and the distance because they had already driven from salt lake City where they had flown into. It took them hours to get to the town I was at and they could not believe it was another day’s driving to get to San Francisco. They looked at a map and they thought to themselves it’s only a little bit it’ll only take us a few hours to make it there. They thought they were going to be able to drive from salt lake City to San Francisco in just a few hours so they could check out the Golden gate bridge before driving back and catching their next flight. And they were far from the first people that I had met that made similar mistakes to that. America is absolutely massive in comparison. So it’s not a surprise that most Americans would look at something and say oh my God it’s going to take us forever to go from where the ship docks to anywhere we can actually do something. Because in America any place a ship docs is a really long distance from anywhere you can actually do anything. And most the time you can’t even walk through those areas because most of the time they are areas that are warehouse districts industrial districts things like that. So while Europeans love to make fun of Americans because oh no we can’t walk. We walk extremely far just to get to the areas that we’re at. Hell my kids when they went to high school their high school was exactly 20 miles from my front door to get to their high school. The junior high that my kids went to was 3 miles. The elementary school that my son goes to is a mile both directions. We still walk it we have no issues walking it.
I’m sure lots of them just can’t fully internalize the fact that there are places worth going to that are close and safe to walk to. Outside of downtown areas in mid size American cities, going somewhere on foot could take hours and involve crossing streets not friendly (or sometimes illegal) to foot traffic. That sucks, and a lifetime of living that reality is hard for some people to move past.
I have a perfect example of this. Last week I needed to take my car to the mechanic. Look it up and it’s only a 7 minute drive so I think to myself “I’ll just drop it off and walk home! It’s only a 7 minute drive away.” Look up how long it would take to walk - 1 hour 5 minutes…
Americans in general are already shocked about the lack of chain restaurants and large quantity of little shops. It seems to be a bit of a culture shock. One was complaining his kid could not eat anything familiar here.
Tourist guides were also saying that most Americans absolutely refuse to leave the cruise ship if there is no bus waiting. So they get info the bus, the bus drives 400 meter (quarter mile) to the destination and ask them to do disembark. They’ll always say " I could’ve walked!" while the guide internally screams at them they told them so.
You know the opposite can be said about people from Europe visiting America for the first time too. I remember years ago when I was in high school working at a gas station and a small town in Nevada. We had some Europeans show up in the middle of the night asking how far it was to San Francisco I told them it was another 12 hours from where we are currently at to be able to make it to San Francisco. They were absolutely aghast at the size and the distance because they had already driven from salt lake City where they had flown into. It took them hours to get to the town I was at and they could not believe it was another day’s driving to get to San Francisco. They looked at a map and they thought to themselves it’s only a little bit it’ll only take us a few hours to make it there. They thought they were going to be able to drive from salt lake City to San Francisco in just a few hours so they could check out the Golden gate bridge before driving back and catching their next flight. And they were far from the first people that I had met that made similar mistakes to that. America is absolutely massive in comparison. So it’s not a surprise that most Americans would look at something and say oh my God it’s going to take us forever to go from where the ship docks to anywhere we can actually do something. Because in America any place a ship docs is a really long distance from anywhere you can actually do anything. And most the time you can’t even walk through those areas because most of the time they are areas that are warehouse districts industrial districts things like that. So while Europeans love to make fun of Americans because oh no we can’t walk. We walk extremely far just to get to the areas that we’re at. Hell my kids when they went to high school their high school was exactly 20 miles from my front door to get to their high school. The junior high that my kids went to was 3 miles. The elementary school that my son goes to is a mile both directions. We still walk it we have no issues walking it.
There aren’t a lot of places in the US that have worthwhile places to visit within walking distance from an airport or harbor.
I’m sure lots of them just can’t fully internalize the fact that there are places worth going to that are close and safe to walk to. Outside of downtown areas in mid size American cities, going somewhere on foot could take hours and involve crossing streets not friendly (or sometimes illegal) to foot traffic. That sucks, and a lifetime of living that reality is hard for some people to move past.
I have a perfect example of this. Last week I needed to take my car to the mechanic. Look it up and it’s only a 7 minute drive so I think to myself “I’ll just drop it off and walk home! It’s only a 7 minute drive away.” Look up how long it would take to walk - 1 hour 5 minutes…
Armericans walking 400 metres?
What’s that in dachshunds?
They don’t know what 400 meters is. May as well be a million miles. They can’t take that chance!
It could be a learning experience? (Do they have those?)
They do but not without gunshot risk.
Some take longer walks when crossing their McMansion to get to the fridge. /s
DoorDash has a service now where the dasher will bring you stuff from your fridge to save unnecessary trips like that.
Research is ongoing to automate this process..