Its a different World

So now I am in US! Life here is so different from Europe or Asia! Public Transport system is virtually nonexistent. Oh! I miss the beautiful Swiss trams, trolley buses and certainly the trains.
People are always in their cars. I have seen people moving in a cemetery in cars...Why they never seem to walk!!
And there are so many obese people here!!People even take motor trolleys in shopping malls to avoid walking.
Being an Indian and living in European countries for so many years, I have always loved to walk. In Switzerland even old people are going hiking and they look so fit in spite of their age.
In my own country, the young and the poor are always ready to walk. The old and well to do Indians try to avoid walking. But here in US the children's parks are empty. The footpaths are empty. And everyone is either inside their rooms or cars.
In the housing community I live in,there are three children's parks with slides and swings. My husband chose this housing specifically for those parks since he didn’t find those facilities in most of the neighborhoods where he searched for an apartment. Still these parks are most often empty. My little daughter is often the only child playing.
But there are so many children in the neighborhood! Yet they are nowhere to be found.
That day my girl was riding the slide and I saw a car stop by the park. A lady came out, took out her kid, and took out his little tricycle. I told my daughter “There’s a friend. He will be coming here to play".
The lady started taking her groceries to her house and when she finished, it was time up. The child had to go in with his mother.
No wonder there are so many obese people in this country.