"Perhaps I'm just spoiled because I live in Quebec... home - along with the United States - to some of the most courteous drivers you've ever met."
Seriously? I mean seriously?? Have you never been to Ontario? I am not going to comment on Colombian drivers I have no idea, but Quebec drivers are hate-machines compared to Ontario drivers.
I once saw a head on collision because one Quebec motorist decided to jump the light and the other decided to sneak a yellow at about 50 miles and hour. That's Quebec for you - all about the wiggle room.
Yes, I know I failed my drivers test - Out of FEAR.
Just to add to your description of insane global car etiquette:
In Manila the roads are equally shared between SUVs minicabs Jeepneys pony and cart and large sort of flat-bed tricycles usually full of children who's snots fly out of their noses and adhere to the windows of the SUVs. On a six lane motorway, normal.
In Seoul, everyone goes 100 miles an hour everywhere. There are no wheeled vehicles other than cars or motorbikes and even if the truck you are driving is holding a perilous amount of fresh vegetable stock, weirdly unboxed and open to the elements you still go 100 miles an hour. In fact there were so many trucks full of vegetables and then that wacky anthropomorphic signage that I felt like I was visiting a
"Perhaps I'm just spoiled
"Perhaps I'm just spoiled because I live in Quebec... home - along with the United States - to some of the most courteous drivers you've ever met."
Seriously? I mean seriously?? Have you never been to Ontario? I am not going to comment on Colombian drivers I have no idea, but Quebec drivers are hate-machines compared to Ontario drivers.
I once saw a head on collision because one Quebec motorist decided to jump the light and the other decided to sneak a yellow at about 50 miles and hour. That's Quebec for you - all about the wiggle room.
Yes, I know I failed my drivers test - Out of FEAR.
Just to add to your description of insane global car etiquette:
In Manila the roads are equally shared between SUVs minicabs Jeepneys pony and cart and large sort of flat-bed tricycles usually full of children who's snots fly out of their noses and adhere to the windows of the SUVs. On a six lane motorway, normal.
In Seoul, everyone goes 100 miles an hour everywhere. There are no wheeled vehicles other than cars or motorbikes and even if the truck you are driving is holding a perilous amount of fresh vegetable stock, weirdly unboxed and open to the elements you still go 100 miles an hour. In fact there were so many trucks full of vegetables and then that wacky anthropomorphic signage that I felt like I was visiting a
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