[birdyrooster]

Obviously (or I guess not so obvious since I am writing this) that is because of a different density of workers, architects, general contractors, engineers for vastly different biomes in the United States than in Europe. Europe has way more people (more than twice as dense) in a similar geographic area (far less diverse features) so the data and practices honed by one are more efficient and have greater economy of scale despite all of the red tape we share. Nothing really that interesting.

Or you can just go with the simple stupid answer of corruption as if Europe isn't its own cesspool.

[AbrahamParangi]

I don’t think this is obvious or even necessarily true. Europe has many things going against it as well, language barriers, split markets, generally being quite a bit poorer than the US. Moreover it doesn’t explain the performance of East Asian countries at all.

[birdyrooster]

It would greatly explain the performance of East Asian countries. They share the same environmental challenges whereas in the US the challenges are vastly different depending on which coast you are near. Of course China had less red tape (no pun intended) in some regards for development than the other East Asian countries so it executes even faster than its peers. I think its more of a slam dunk than comparing Europe with the US in these terms, which is commensurate with their ability to churn out infrastructure.

[eru]

> It would greatly explain the performance of East Asian countries. They share the same environmental challenges whereas in the US the challenges are vastly different depending on which coast you are near.

Huh? East Asian countries differ greatly from each other.

And the bigger countries, like China, differ vastly by region. Just like the US.

[kiba]

Across the board we just sucks. Can't be explained by environment being different if US states all exhibit the same pathologies.

[ClumsyPilot]

> They share the same environmental challenges whereas in the US the challenges are vastly different depending on which coast you are near

Ah yes, Norway and Greece are known for having the same climate.

The temperature range is literally 100 degrees Centigrade - record in Greece ks 48 Degrees C

Record in Norway is -51 degrees

[bobthepanda]

I don’t know that biome relevance is particularly relevant given that major US cities are not usually where major weather extremes happen. We are not talking about skyscrapers in Death Valley or Nome.