JaN0h4ckAug 12, 2023

[image] Both cars fit the same amount of people

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[image] Both cars fit the same amount of people - Feddit

Honestly this is absurd. These death machines shouldn’t be legal in europe. That thing doesn’t even fit in the parking space, even though the parking lot has the biggest spaces in the whole city. The Golf is so small in comparison, it could event hide in front of the engine hood of the truck.

Show threadLettuce eat lettuceAug 12, 2023
But you forgot that the truck can be used to haul 4 pieces of lumber twice a year!
Show threadGladiusBAug 12, 2023
How do Europeans get stuff for their house around? Like do appliances just get delivered as part of buying them? Or are there other companies that specialize in that sort of thing? Genuinely curious.
Show threadPixel of LifeAug 12, 2023
This question baffles me because it seems like a total non-issue to me as a European. How do Americans get stuff for their house around? Do you not have delivery or truck/van/trailer rental services, and are your appliances (with the exception of fridges/freezers which are apparently hilariously big in the US) so American-sized that you can’t fit them in an average family hatchback/crossover/SUV? Or do you regularly move all of your stuff from one house to another?
Show threadBigNoteAug 13, 2023
The answer is a resounding yes; in most of the US it’s absolutely normal to have large appliances delivered, installed and your old appliance hauled away as part of a single purchase. Where this isn’t as true is in rural areas that, especially in the west, are often far more remote than anything in Europe apart from, perhaps, Northern Scandinavia and parts of Russia.
Show threadZpiritual

I’ve lived in northern sweden and unlike americans we don’t haul appliances around daily. When I would buy one I hooked up my trailer, brought my old broken one to the recycling center and picked up my new from the store going home. Or pay for delivery and disposal if that was an option.

It would take the entire day due to the distance but that’s not really the fault of the trailer or the car.

Aug 13, 2023 at 4:38amWeb
Show threadBigNoteAug 16, 2023

WTF are you on about? Where did I say that Americans haul appliances around daily?

That’s ludicrous.

Maybe we have a communication failure, I don’t know.

That said, I have family in Sweden and by all accounts it seems like a better place to live than the US, though I live in the Pacific Northwest and would be very hard-pressed to give up the proximity to wild untouched nature that we have here.

Even here in Portland I’m still less than a few boat trips and a bush plane ride away from the deep roadless bush in British Columbia or Alaska.