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US stuff was built quick and cheap - people were always moving on, moving west. That has to be part of it. Not many were settled and rich enought to really build something marvelous like a plantation, say Monticello, or some of the rich houses up in Rhode Island.
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Yeah, I've thought that that must be the reason for most of the makeshift ugliness: the itch to move on in a vast new continental nation; people in Europe were far more settled in their towns & villages.
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It's easy to romanticize Europe, but remember that Europe lacks basic functionality in stuff like toilets and showers - by our standards. I'm not kidding. In the stuff where functionality and convenience matter most, the US is better than Europe, generally. At least in countries outside of Germany.
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No toilet bowl shelves to facilitate the close examination of turds here, eh?
