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You haven’t seen Emmen. Has poor transit to boot.

One thing I should point out is that while we do cycle a lot, car ownership is still super high, so even in a model city like Houten the streets get cluttered by households having 2 cars each.

My explanation for the aversion is that we refuse to shake off an antiquated view of the Dutch landscape where our cities are small and low-rise with a lot of rural areas. So we may not be on Belgian levels of sprawl (we did get some measures against that in the seventies) but medium-sized cities are everywhere and as a result motorway traffic is high. The motorway between Amsterdam and Utrecht is 5 lanes in each direction.

I know Switzerland sprawls a lot too but they also have more railroads connecting them all, at least.

Oh, and Dutch people are the epitome of the neoliberal subject.

Seconding this as a Dutch person, especially on the “allergic to dense development” part

“Finally” our turn? I thought we were one of the first…

It gets weirder:

The Chinese name was inspired by two pivotal institutions in its co-founder Mao Wenchao’s career journey that both feature red as their primary color: Bain & Company, where he worked as a consultant, and Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he earned his MBA.

The “Mao” in his name is the same character as in “Mao Zedong”.

Source (via Wikipedia): https://web.archive.org/web/20250115024204/https://36kr.com/p/1724258762753