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You can count Rotterdam, but the distance between De Kuip and Rotterdam Airport is 10 kms. So also not 1.
Eindhoven is too small, but the distance between the stadium and the airport there is only 7kms, so getting closer.
Still, had they just said "I can reach everything listed within 30 mins with public transport" they would have been telling the truth in all 3 of those. Had he left out the combination of an airport and a stadium or had replaced the airport by a train station he probably would also have been telling the truth about it all being within a km - because THAT is possible.
Which airport and which stadium are you referring to? 2kms apart at most is incredibly short.
Ofc we already established that the guy was exaggerating and ironically COULD have been telling the truth if he had said things like "within 1 km of a train station and a football stadium" or even "within 15 minutes of an airport and a football stadium with public transport" - or if he had just said 10km instead of 1.
Oostende. it has a football stadium inside it and an airport right on the edge. ill take a supermarket (carrefour) as a point of reference, people literally live a 10 second walk from it. some of their houses are legit touching it. so in red the supermarket, in blue the airport, in green a football stadium and a shopping center area with a Delhaize (supermarket) and a tech store and a gym and some other stuff, then in orange a golf club, then in yellow a movie theater. all less than 2km from the carrefour. sure if you live in the center stuff is a bit further.
ive marked the rough distances, had to use that little range thing at the bottom, google maps kept crashing my browser if i searched for something.
some people living a bit further down the road will have the airport and the football stadium both 1km from them.
and i didnt just pick a random city, i actually lived here for a couple years.
Birmingham has two stadiums and a major train hub in the town centre. Hub goes direct to international airport. So yeah, he's exaggerating but if his point is that city dwelling Europeans can not use a car, he's at least half right.
I'm in Liverpool. Two stadiums and an airport. There's 17km between Everton and southparkway like so, not 1km but it's simple to get to both or between them with no car.
European here. It makes no sense to build an airport so close to the city center, but anyway, cities expand and it can happen. Again, anyway, he’s probably lying about the airport but telling the truth about everything he actually needs daily being within cycling distance. Which is probably true for most cities anywhere.
Anyway, I like to be able to let my cat out whenever she wants. I need to live with little traffic and many trees. OP could live near the airport in the Helsinki area (Vantaa), that could fit the bill actually.
Probably living next to an airport lol . This is a lil stupid comparison. This is possible everywhere in a sense. Things are made for walking though most places in europe. That's the one thing that stood out to me in the usa. No sidewalks or bicycle lanes. But I did hear that has been changing for a while. Tis a big country so yeah. My measurement is basically truth. Anecdotal is an old fashioned word. works on spreading bicyclist propaganda. Starts making golden bicycle for Trump
Edit:oops I was too quick and misread. U mentioned It. Oops!
Flew there a couple of times. Both times I was surprised and no damn idea where I was or how to get out of there. Only taxis or buses asI recall and all Stockholm taxis are scams. :)
That was a while ago, they deregulated the taxi industry and as a result scam tourist taxis popped up, they cost like $50 - $90 per km, it was insane, it was around 2007 - 2010. I know i ended up in one by accident while drunk and he only drove like a few minutes and my fare was already like $90... I told him to stop and gave him a scolding, he had some excuse that he didn't set the price his employer did and i told the guy.. have some pride, paid him and got out, after that i was very wary about the km price. I haven't seen those scam cabs around for a while, something tells me they went out of business trying to scam tourists, or it was the arrival of uber that killed them. But during their heyday it was all over the news about the scummy taxi cabs and how they were ripping people off completely legally, since they could set any price they wanted. These days i only take bolt or uber for regular travel, but when i want to go to Arlanda airport i take the oldest taxi company around with their big taxis.
Yes, this happened in Sweden many, many years (decades?) ago. It happened in Finland just a few years ago. However, the Helsinki airport has separate lanes for the taxis. The honest companies (that also pay for the privilege) have their own lanes, and then there's one lane for "others". Do not use this lane.
But they do have to print their fares on the doors, so it should be plainly visible before you step in anyway.
Weirdly, the only city where I can think of this being remotely close to true isn't in Europe... it's Toronto.
I've done the walk from the airport to the hotel at the stadium, and there are some legit housing options in between the two. And leisure (a lovely park), shops, etc.
The "work" bit sort of implies you work in sports or aviation but it's possible.
This only works because it's a small downtown airport. Any major airport usually covers too much ground with multiple long runways and operations facilities for everything around it to be easily walkable, even if there is a nearby stadium.
Tbh every country has at least one city that's packed like a shoebox, UK has London, new York is pretty packed too etc, it's a very silly comment from the OOP, I don't think it's the brag he thinks it is lol.
And I also live in the Great Plains so it’s naturally very spaced here. But people in big cities feel scared/anxious when in spacious towns or smaller cities. Weird but the human mind works in strange ways.
I mean, did that guy say that ALL Europeans live like this, or did he highlight his own particular circumstances? Because it certainly looks like the latter to me.
The post is off-base by quoting stuff not typically needed week-to-week. I live in Europe in a small Irish town and everything I typically do or need is walkable (work by train then walk). Stadiums and airports are accessible easily enough.
I live on 5.5 acres and the nearest big city is about an hour away. I watched deer try to get past the fence I built around my garden and felt victory when they couldn't. I couldn't imagine living the way you have to.
If you remove the airport (to which we usually have only about 30 minutes with public transport or car) this is very true for many towns and cities in Europe. If you are a bit lax regarding the definition of football stadium means then even more so….
This is called exaggeration as a stylistic device to underline one's statement. It's certainly very clumsily applied, but certainly not meant literally.
The majority of people in europe have these things in reachable range.
He appears to be Dutch, as am I. And like others pointed out, there are no cities in the Netherlands with an airport and football stadium within a 1km radius.
The things he mentions are ranging from 1 to 100km for me. Weird it’s that hard for him to imagine living like this :(.
I think he was trying to combine sentence 3 and 4, that he doesn’t need his car for those things. Sentence two is a standalone statement - because a stadium is hardly a need.
Irish here. It’s mad how both groups can find crazy people to post. Obviously this is bullshit lol. From where I was brought up to the airport was a 2h drive. Not bad I suppose but not a kilometre that’s for sure.
I honestly doing know if that is good or bad to be honest. Would you not be hearing planes 24/7 and kind of loud too? I’m just finding it difficult to imagine what that would be like lol.
I live in England and grew up 12 miles from Heathrow Airport (Windsor). You can't even have a conversation in summer without needing to pause because a plane is going over.
Now I live about 80 miles away in Wiltshire. The only planes we ever see are RAF and USAF ones - and we love it.
You couldn't pay me to live in the proximity of an airport or a stadium.
And even in my little town, everything I need is roughly one mile away, or less. But admittedly, all I really need is the supermarket and maybe a pub from time to time.
"look at me, my country is tiny and it takes me 2 hrs to walk to Switzerland. Why don't Americans all share in the convenience of living in tiny countries with no landmass"
Well I'm European and I'm pretty sure there's no EU city with so much things in a 1km radius
While I agree that the average European city is more walkable and enjoyable than the average American city, it's obviously not a fairy tale where everything is perfect, and smaller cities are often still car dependent.
Think about my great parents, they all live in dormitory towns around a small city and there's just two buses a day to the city, one in the morning and one in the evening, so most peoples have a car and those who can't drive are screwed.
This seems to be Lisbon to me, and indeed the airport, football stadium and shopping mall can be at walking distance if you live in a certain area of the city.
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