๐ Driving Everywhere
์ด๋ ๊ฐ๋ ์ด์ ํ๊ธฐ
I recently had a very cute conversation with my niece. I may be a little bit biased, but it opened my eyes to a cultural difference. I was walking to a coffee shop to go to a language exchange nearby.
์ผ๋ง ์ ์ ์กฐ์นด์ ์์ฃผ ๊ท์ฌ์ด ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋ด์ต๋๋ค. ํธ๊ฒฌ์ผ ์๋ ์์ง๋ง ๋ฌธํ ์ฐจ์ด์ ๋ํด ๋์ ๋จ๊ฒ ๋์์ฃ . ์ธ์ด ๊ตํ ๋ชจ์์ ์ํด ์ง ๊ทผ์ฒ ์นดํ๋ก ๊ฑธ์ด๊ฐ๋ ๊ธธ์ด์์ด์.
I called my brother to pass the time. While I was talking to my niece, I mentioned that I was walking to the coffee shop. She said, โYou donโt walk to a coffee shop. You drive to a coffee shop!โ I burst out laughing because itโs such an American thing to say.
๊ฑธ์ผ๋ฉด์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด๋ ค๊ณ ๋์์๊ฒ ์ ํ๋ฅผ ๊ฑธ์์ฃ . ์กฐ์นด์ ํ์ฐธ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ค ๊ทผ์ฒ ์นดํ์ ๊ฑธ์ด๊ฐ๋ ์ค์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ์ด์. ๊ทธ๋ฌ์ ์กฐ์นด๊ฐ โ์นดํ๋ ๊ฑธ์ด์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ ์๋์์. ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์์!โ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋๊ตฐ์. ์ ๋ง ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ํ ๋ฒํ ๋ง์ด๋ผ ์์์ด ํฐ์ก์ต๋๋ค.
She also lives in the countryside, so all she knows about coffee shops is that theyโre very far away. But I thought it was an interesting thing to think about.
์กฐ์นด๋ ๊ต์ธ์ ์ด๊ณ ์์ด์ ์๋ ์นดํ๋ค์ ์ ๋ถ ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ ๋จ์ด์ง ๊ณณ์ ์๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ์ด๋ฐ ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ํ๋๋ผ๋ ๋ฌด์ฒ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ๋ํ์์ด์.
Living in Seoul, I got really used to the convenience. There were so many things to do within walking distance. I could take the subway or bus if I wanted to go somewhere further away. However, even though I live in a smaller town now, I can still walk to many places. I walk to coffee shops, restaurants, and even the hospital. I think most Korean cities are very walkable.
์์ธ์ ์ด๋ฉด์ ํธ๋ฆฌํจ์ ๋ฌด์ฒ ์ต์ํด์ก์ด์. ์ฌ๋งํ ๊ณณ์ ๋ค ๊ฑธ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์ ์์์ฃ . ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ ๋๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ผ๋ฉด ์งํ์ฒ ์ด๋ ๋ฒ์ค๋ฅผ ํ๋ฉด ๋๊ณ ์. ์ง๊ธ์ ๋ ์์ ๋๋ค์ ์ด์ง๋ง, ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ฑธ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์ ์๋ ๊ณณ์ด ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ์นดํ, ์๋น์ ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋ณ์๋ ๊ฑธ์ด์ ๋ค๋
์. ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ํ๊ตญ ๋์๋ ๊ฑท๊ธฐ ์ข์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
In the U.S., we drive everywhere. Even if we can walk somewhere, we drive there instead. Itโs just easier to drive. You can save time and, if you buy a lot of things, itโs easy to bring it home. However, I hope that American cities will become more walkable in the future.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ์ด๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๋ค๋๋๋ค. ๊ฑธ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์ ์๋ ๊ณณ๋ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ์. ์ด์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ ํธํ๋๊น์. ์๊ฐ๋ ์ ์ฝ๋๊ณ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ ๋ง์ด ์์ ๋ ์ง์ ๊ฐ์ ธ๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ ์ฝ๊ณ ์. ํ์ง๋ง ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋์๋ค์ด ๋ ๊ฑท๊ธฐ ์ข์ ๊ณณ์ด ๋์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |