Wow, I didn't know that. Being from Europe and having only visited the US once (East Coast), I had the impression they were everywhere.
New York has a working mass transit system, though. For poor people this makes the world of a difference. I remember that, when I lived in Madrid a few years back, I was impressed by how fast you could go _everywhere_ in that city with the subway alone. A cross-town morning commute in that 3Mil Juggernaut took about as long as the cross-town car-commute in a less developed 130K city I had lived in before.
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Wow, I didn't know that. Being from Europe and having only visited the US once (East Coast), I had the impression they were everywhere.
New York has a working mass transit system, though. For poor people this makes the world of a difference. I remember that, when I lived in Madrid a few years back, I was impressed by how fast you could go _everywhere_ in that city with the subway alone. A cross-town morning commute in that 3Mil Juggernaut took about as long as the cross-town car-commute in a less developed 130K city I had lived in before.
They're much less common in urban areas because of the enormous cost of real estate that would be necessary for a store that large.