Reply #5: Different strokes for different folks.

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Two reasons (among many) why infrastructure in France is superior - small land area to cover, and de facto socialist taxation scheme - neither of which make that infrastructure less preferable to no/poor infrastructure such as we have in the US; but what it does mean is that until Americans clamor for better infrastructure above all else, authorities will have to make do with the meager resources they have to cover a continent-sized land mass. Also, I too have firsthand knowledge of which I speak, as I lived in France many years ago, and I love it there, but prefer living here in the US.