Having travelled abroad to work in small few weeks longs chunks to Europe totaling about 4 months in a few years.........I sometimes question my choice of country of residence if this will continue to be a hobby.
While the attitude of "forget you, I've got mine" is typical in the US for most anything, the roads thing is that the US expanded rapidly after the advent of the motor vehicle. So a vast amount of communities developed around the car, not the bike or horse or walker.
Our company's headquarters is in Denmark with a facility in France......maybe I need to rethink things.