Travelling experiences

Do you mean like New York City? For instance:

1. We’re not allowed to use Dran-o because the pipes in older apartment buildings are worn and corroded.
2. The subway shuts down every time it rains because engineers can’t figure out a way to to vent the tunnels without having them flood with rainwater.
3. Every few months of so, a 150-year-old steam pipe under the street will explode without warning, creating a crater in a major roadway.
4. The Empire State Building has so many broadcast antennae plastered to it, the radio waves kill 30 cars a day, leaving them completely inoperable.

It’s unfair to judge an entire culture as “old-fashioned” simply because their infrastructure was not installed with the stresses of modern use in mind.

Considering we’ve never had a national leader who wasn’t rich, white, and male, gays do not have full civil rights, our infant mortality rate is 22nd in the world, and we’re one of the only industrialized nations without socialized medicine, I’d say the United States currently ranks as one of the most old-fashioned nations on the planet.