And when you wanted to go some place out of walking range you could just take the public transit. The train, bus and subway were all available to me. Being only 15 and not having a car yet, the freedom and mobility offered was really quite amazing to someone like me who lives in a city with limited mass transit available. A lot of Americans think the United States is a superpower nation. Well, this belief is not only limited to Americans.
Many German people think that the U.S. is just great and want to know everything about it.
But while we may be the most powerful nation on the planet, we don't need to act it. When I was in the Zurich airport I overheard a loud American woman practically yelling at a woman in an exchange booth. My family just cringed and walked on by.