> the kitchen has a refrigerator smaller than the one my American best friend uses for beer
It's possible that you can walk 5 min to get more beer while he has to drive 30 minutes?
It's possible that you can walk 5 min to get more beer while he has to drive 30 minutes?
Most regular drinkers function fairly normally around the legal limit, it is set really low.
I can get good selection of beers or other alcohol at reasonable price in the regular store within 5-10 min of walk anywhere in the city assuming it is not middle of the night.
Not in the US. The legal limit in almost all states is 0.08.
The point is the europe apartment doesn't need survivalist style storage because it's close to stores. I could have said Mars bars or steaks but the OP post was about a beer fridge so I went along with it.
A while back someone here made a great point about why Americans love to take vacations to European cities. It triggers a nostalgic wave in them bringing up warm feelings they had the last and possibly only time they lived in a community that they could explore and enjoy simply by walking and biking around. You know, that wonderful time when they lived....on a college campus.
The reason why there is little room for storage in the those tiny european apartments is the same reason you didn't have a huge fridge in your dorm room in college.
And in many of those places you can walk around with a beer in your hand in public. Yes, that's right -- just like college.
Outside college, car culture in the US encourages stocking up habits which in turn encourages the search for more storage space.
We live near a Lidl (similar to Aldi) and it's fine for a quick trip for the staples.
But if we're cooking something like what you'd find in the New York Times or Delish or whatever, we're driving to a big old supermarket just like in the States. We find ourselves still following the American model of driving to fill the car with groceries once a week because we like a lot of variety.
If you're content with the national cuisine of Portugal, you could totally always walk to buy groceries though. They're fond of fish and a specific kind of grilled chicken. And in fairness, their chicken is really quite good.