Three years in Europe with Trolltech

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by qw • 17 years ago

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enjo• 17 years ago

"It is sociably acceptable for every day adults to ride bikes, even a women in a skirt which was something you would never see in the states."

This guy has obviously never been to Portland, Denver, or a host of other cities where bikes are absolutely normal modes of transportation.

Hell just as I wrote this two women (in skirts) biked past my window (Downtown Denver).

RyanMcGreal2• 17 years ago

True, but the normalization of cycling in a few select US cities is much more recent than the normalization of cycling across the northern European lowlands countries.

jrockway2• 17 years ago

"Few select"

Are there any major cities (say, the size of Oslo) where cycling isn't or wasn't always common?

jrockway2• 17 years ago

Yeah, I was going to post the same thing. I see people in skirts riding their bikes in Chicago all the time. It is so normal I would never even give it a second thought.

I don't think the author has ever lived in a city, and is associating "Europe" with "city" instead of "city" and "city". (Oslo is kind of treacherous for cyclists anyway. Ride into one of the tram rails and you are likely to go down pretty hard.)

marvin• 17 years ago

Just to flaunt my vanity, I thought I'd say that my family (father-side) comes from Trysil, the small town mentioned, where the KDE guys spend a week hacking each summer. It's a really beautiful place - desolate, with miles and miles of pine trees in every direction. I think the place has about 10.000 inhabitants in summer - although in winter it enjoys its status as the largest ski resort in Scandinavia. (My trip to eastern China this summer was paid with some of the cash my family earns from renting out real-estate to ski tourists).

I've never heard the story behind the KDE developer camp up there, but from years of personal experience it is a great place to go disconnect from everyday distractions. You can actually be alone up there, while still enjoying a top-notch standard of living.

Three years in Europe with Trolltech

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