sometimes, sometimes its way darker (roughly half of a 24 hour day)

In general rural America is very different from rural Europe, which has been slowly civilized over the course of thousands of years. Most of America was still untouched forest 200 years ago

thank God a european didn't design them then

Yeah the design pressure is that you NEED a car to get around in rural areas, which makes rural town design car-centric, which reinforces the need to have a car, etc. Walkable villages aren't really prevalent except on the East Coast, where civilization arrived before the invention of the automobile

Yeah I can't see the situation changing in the US anytime soon unless gas actually becomes scarce (which would also make modern construction impossible lol)

@teto @cjd @Chzikken_1486 @Kazak not put west it'll be 3 days of hoofing it to the nearest large town