[Fat Charlie]

Arragonis- I know you're not in Portugal, sorry. I had just added a bunch of numbers together and was mentioning that I had missed at least one that I meant to include. My point is that while rail in Europe is used a lot (mainly for passengers), it's useless here for almost anything because there's so little of it and we're so spread out. Most people here don't have the room or money to have a truck just sitting around gathering dust either, so they use full size pickups as daily drivers. There isn't much of a "man with a van" industry here because enough people have enough of a need for a truck that there are so many out there... that nobody's going to get into the hauling stuff for people business.

euromodder- You don't know decentralized. Belgium? That's not much bigger than New Hampshire, but has 1,318 people per square mile to our 139 people per square mile. Where you have lots and lots of people spread around, we have people spread around over lots and lots of land. Even when we do stack up, the pattern is more sprawl than anything and doesn't work well with most mass transit. You're right, though- Scotland is kind of open with their 171 people per square mile.