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But you forgot that the truck can be used to haul 4 pieces of lumber twice a year!
How do Europeans get stuff for their house around? Like do appliances just get delivered as part of buying them? Or are there other companies that specialize in that sort of thing? Genuinely curious.
This question baffles me because it seems like a total non-issue to me as a European. How do Americans get stuff for their house around? Do you not have delivery or truck/van/trailer rental services, and are all your appliances (and not just fridges/freezers which are apparently hilariously big in the US) so American-sized that you can't fit them in an average family hatchback/crossover/SUV? Or do you regularly move all of your stuff from one house to another?
The answer is a resounding yes; in most of the US it's absolutely normal to have large appliances delivered, installed and your old appliance hauled away as part of a single purchase. Where this isn't as true is in rural areas that, especially in the west, are often far more remote than anything in Europe apart from, perhaps, Northern Scandinavia and parts of Russia.
I've lived in northern sweden and unlike americans we don't haul appliances around daily. When I would buy one I hooked up my trailer, brought my old broken one to the recycling center and picked up my new from the store going home. Or pay for delivery and disposal if that was an option.
It would take the entire day due to the distance but that's not really the fault of the trailer or the car.
WTF are you on about? Where did I say that Americans haul appliances around daily?
That's ludicrous.
Maybe we have a communication failure, I don't know.
That said, I have family in Sweden and by all accounts it seems like a better place to live than the US, though I live in the Pacific Northwest and would be very hard-pressed to give up the proximity to wild untouched nature that we have here.
Even here in Portland I'm still less than a few boat trips and a bush plane ride away from the deep roadless bush in British Columbia or Alaska.
as someone that's never owned a truck and moved a lot I will say one of the biggest issues with moving here is truck/car rentals. you have to be 26 to rent one and if like me you have no contact with family and you're moving across country it becomes a real issue. thankfully I've had decent people in my life willing to help me but if that isn't the case you really are just kinda screwed on a rental here in the United States.
most appliances like that stay with the house when you move. When they get replaced they get delivered and install generally by a box truck or roughly a lori sized vehicle.
here in the states, most home purchase do not include appliances (refrigerators, stoves, etc) unless it is built in. now if you rent an apartment, the apartment complex is responsible for stoves and refrigerators. washer and driers are not normally included in that if the apartment has hookups.
Yet every time I have moved my family left to old refrigerator behind. They might replace to old at the new house, but we never took old one with us.
This isn't the norm in Seattle, but I'm not familiar with anywhere else
Yes and yes.
My last SUV was quite large and I had a hard time fitting a portable dishwasher in it. Unfortunately the American largeness is in Canada as well.
Also we moved quite a lot sometimes because we can't afford nice places and end up in places where the landlord painted over mold and shit so we nope the fuck out as soon as our lease is up.
No. One person has a SUV. But I have a house. When I first got my house I did a lot of home repairs. Then a truck was being used every other weekend. A car would not suffice.