[kordless]

We love cars simply because of the fact we could fit all of Europe INSIDE the US and still have room left over for Japan, the Philippines and a few other Asian countries.

It's about the only way to get around if you are traveling from one state to another - which we frequently do. Also, ~330M people.

[PinguTS]

You are traveling cross country with your car? o.O

Yes, a road trip in the US is cool, but I would never ever do it for just getting somewhere.

There is another nice public transport system called airplanes. Works pretty well, is comfortable, and is fast. It works also pretty well in the US. I used it several times as my frequent millage card tells me.

BTW: The US aren't that big compared to Europe. Don't mix up US and Russia, which interestingly many Amercians do, as they believe that the US is the biggest country in the world. Actually, Russia is the biggest country in the world, size wise.

[arethuza]

That's kind of odd as Europe (the Continent - 10,180,000 km2) is actually larger in area than the United States (the Country - 9,826,675 km2).

I take it you mean the EU - which covers less than half the area of Europe?

[kordless]

Yes, you are correct. I pulled up a map off Google that overlayed 'europe' over the continental US. That map omitted Ukraine and Turkey, which are included in Europe (among other non-EU countries).

[arethuza]

Only a small part of Turkey is in Europe - making Istanbul one of the few transcontinental cities :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_spanning_more_th...