Translated material
USA
The first thing that catches your eye on an American street is the clear slope of the roads and sidewalks. Moreover, he is very confident: you feel him with your feet and observe him with your eyes. I saw it everywhere, most likely this is a local standard.
Protect yourself, take responsibility for your property
Almost all firefighters in small towns in the United States are volunteers. When a settlement is small, it is expensive to employ professional firefighters. And there are a lot of such settlements in the States - the economy allows you to live widely and not have to move from the entire region to the capital city. Fires are extinguished by residents themselves, taking turns on duty and staying in touch. It is believed that in this way they help their city or town. Equipment and equipment are purchased from the local budget. In short, it’s like buying a fire truck for a village, keeping it always ready, and if anything happens, being able to drive it out before there’s a local fire.
Volunteers do not receive a salary, but have many social benefits and insurance. They also undergo training and training. There are no federal laws regulating volunteer fire departments in the United States. Each fire department is controlled locally. Thanks to such a system, there can be much more fire brigades than with a centralized system, and the response time is shorter.
The role of the local community in the life of an American is much higher than the role of the state. Almost everything is developed at the expense of the local budget; townspeople distribute taxes themselves. A high degree of budget independence creates a sense of ownership among citizens. It seems to me that the emergence of this very feeling in people removes the devastation from the streets. In Russia they call it “doing it for yourself.”
In the USA there are no fences between the sidewalk and the road:
There are a lot of ground signs in the States. They are human-sized and designed to interact with pedestrians. And in general, they look cool and create a cozy atmosphere of communication at the “city-person” level. Such signs look especially cool near the entrance to the territory of a university or park, when the inscription is carved on a large stone in a beautiful font and with adequate layout.
Lowering the curb at a gas station on a highway in the USA:
