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Neither does most of America.

And even if there are trains....
Case in point, I know from painful experience that going from the middle of Long Island to Manhattan takes 2 hours, and if you're lucky the train doesn't derail and send you to a fiery death on a front lawn in Huntington. It would take less than 30 mins with a modern high speed train.

People were definitely negligent when it comes to building up that type of infrastructure, but in America's defense, distances are huge and population is mostly sparse, so this makes it very expensive to have good quality infrastructure compared to western europe, japan or korea.

So they still make you change trains at Huntington?

China is a tad larger than the US. China interconnected all of its major cities with high speed rail in a little less than 8 years, or about 2/3 the time and 1/3 the cost of the war in Iraq. In fact they connected their whole country with about 7000 miles of high speed rail trackage at only about three times what california estimated would cost to connect Los Angeles with San Francisco using just 400 miles of tracks.

I took the train from Shanghai to Beijing, equivalent to New York to Chicago, it took just 3 hours from near city center to city center. Flight from New York to Chacago would take an hour 30 minutes, which when added to commute time to and from the airports, would have taken longer than 3 hours in total.

In backwards socialist china it is just possible to live in Shanghai and commute to work in Beijing. In the US good luck with living in New York and commuting to work in Chicago.

What happened to labor mobility in the land of the free and home of captialism?