Alot of people who visited America says to me : " People in America run , they don't walk " . Do Americans ..?

Question

feel something strange about the rythm of life in the other countries in the world ? What about you ?

Answer 1

Everyone is in a rush here.....People drive like lunatics!! God forbid you drive the speed limit, you'll get run over....I live in rural America, where it is slower paced thank god, but in town, people drive like they are on I-95....and no one knows what a turn signal is!....It's deer season here, I do 55 down this country road to work, sure enough someone rides my bumper....You hit a deer at just 55mph, and it is like hitting a brick wall, yet someone wants me to go 65?.....and you can tell they are pissed cause' you don't speed up.....I just ignore it, but the fast paced attitude is creeping up everywhere it seems, and that is why we moved from the city 17yrs ago, to get away from it.........

Answer 2

Yeah, I visited Spain and they close all the businesses at noon for a three hour siesta, then they have dinner at 10 and stay up until midnight, and they get up late the next morning and do it all again. And last time I checked, European workers from England to Germany get, like, 3 months of vacation a year.

I work 40-45 hours a week with 2 weeks (10 business days) of vacation a year, plus holidays. And that's in the mid-range here in America for professionals. That kind of pace translates to our personal lives as well.

No wonder no other country in the world can match the good ol' U.S.A.'s productivity. Socialism doesn't work you lazy punks! Deal with it!

Answer 3

yes, you can see that in the streets, nobody walk, you work 8 hours a day and drive two in the freeway to get home, pretty much, when you get there is to sleep. The time eat us, and in a blink the year is gone and when you walk in the mall, do not get scared when you see all this old these people dress as teenagers and looking ridiculous, anyway, we can't slow down. I have to go, have a lot of work to do, "the man" own me.

Answer 4

Americans in general are racing -- to be the best, to get somewhere before someone else, to have the best car, the best clothes, the best... Americans don't sit back and relax and enjoy life in general. It's sad to say that that's the way Americans work, but it's the truth. We are a population of people who care less about our fellow man and the land and air we breathe and more about what will get us ahead.

Answer 5

People here, especially in big cities like New York really do almost run. People in the South, where I live, however, are very, very slow movers. It's a small town, by the way. It is totally different from what I saw in Paris compared to what I saw in New York. People in Paris don't run.

Answer 6

I live in a big city and I admit I do walk very fast. I usually am in a hurry to work, in a hurry to get to my lunch during break and in a hurry to get back to the office, then in a hurry to pick up my kids after work before 6pm, then in a hurry to get home to put dinner on the table, review my daughter's homework, bathe, etc. So, my life is a big rush. My weekends in the evening are more relaxing when I am done hurring to do laundry and shopping so I can then hurry to relax with my family. You get the point. : )

Answer 7

When I lived abroad, I often heard another statement, "You Americans live to work, we (Spaniards) work to live!" I believe that we do live a faster paced life than most others. I think that this is driven by capitalism and the ideology of our society that states that hard work is to be rewarded. I found the adjustment to a slower pace difficult and irritating at first, but after several months you realize that there are things that you have been missing while you were busy "Running"!

Answer 8

It depends where you are. You can definitely get that kind of feeling in New York. I live in D.C. and it's a little slower here, but if you are at any metro station around the rush hour-you'll think that people don't run, they fly!

Answer 9

I never run. The last time I ran after anything was in 1967, and that was because I didn't hear the bells on the ice cream truck soon enough. I do a lot of fast walking at my job though. Nurses can't walk slow or we get nothing done!

Answer 10

I assume they mean we are so fast paced it seems like we run instead of walking. We do walk fast however. Of course those people who made that statement might have only visited our parks here, otherwise we usually walk unless someone is after us. Thank you and GOD bless.