Totally. It also has friendly, hilarious, tall and broad shouldered men who love to drink and gamble on soccer, women with great fashion sense who get their nails done religiously, and some of my favorite local folk music I've ever heard. I think the point I'm trying to make is that broad, multi-faceted cultural differences that span generations are a better explanation for differing obesity rates than one single factor like the lack of socialized healthcare.

I think it takes living in Europe and also living in rural America to really understand just how different we are across the Atlantic, so broad demographic differences like this aren't something we can neatly attribute to one cause, nor should we aim to.