As I am a person interested in geography, I sometimes spend hours scouring Google Earth just looking around. As a result, the famous American urban sprawl has always fascinated me. One of the most extreme cases in the US might be Cape Coral, FL. There aren't many amenities, everything seems to be really far away, it appears like a giant sea of suburbs without a downtown area. The spaces we create shape people.
It's difficult for the European mind to understand that kind of lifestyle.