Streets lights simply don't exist in the US.
It's bad enough having to walk along the road because of the lack of pavements (see Priorities), but it's downright dangerous negotiating - as I did this evening - even the short distance from the house to the local supermarket on a moonless night when you can't see your feet, let alone the omnipresent potholes (but that's another story).
Now I understand why everybody leaves the lights on outside their house. It's not to ward off burglars, but because they're fed up of hearing pedestrian Europeans breaking their ankles.
It's bad enough having to walk along the road because of the lack of pavements (see Priorities), but it's downright dangerous negotiating - as I did this evening - even the short distance from the house to the local supermarket on a moonless night when you can't see your feet, let alone the omnipresent potholes (but that's another story).
Now I understand why everybody leaves the lights on outside their house. It's not to ward off burglars, but because they're fed up of hearing pedestrian Europeans breaking their ankles.
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