Yeah these same things exist in most American cities, especially in the West. But a big difference in America is the population density. America is almost all empty. Yeah, Europe has a lot of sparse areas, but remember that the landmass of America (contiguous) is 8e6 km^2 while Europe is 10e6 km^2 while US has that between 350m people and Europe between 750m people. Lose 4e6km2 and 143m people if you want to remove Russia (which itself is sparse, a bit more than the US). I'm saying this because what happens in the US around transportation infrastructure is going to be __substantially__ different than what happens in Europe. There's always people saying "well Europe does X why can't the US" but you can't drive for 10hrs in Europe without passing through a major city while you can do that in just Texas[0]
That's why I specified the middle of nowhere ones as the "interesting" ones. The mall one, like Norway, was explicitly stated.
