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Yeah you definitely do see that in North America. Just because you live in the middle of urban sprawl and suburb hell doesn't mean everyone does.
Can we stop glamorizing Europe? For fuck sake Frankfurt Germany looks like Detriot's heroin addict cousin and there's villages that look like Gary Indiana threw up in a liter box.
where I grew up and some select cities from my childhood throughout canada there were all sorts of flying and jumpy grass critters. These days in the same areas there are rats, flies, and mosquitos, if anything at all. Maybe the odd sickly owl that the outsiders that took over the region dont care about. If you do see any desirable creatures they are sparse and nowhere near the look anywhere see twelve populations of the old days.
and I'm not trying to glamourize europe but when I go visit family it's been the same year after year trying not to step on grasshoppers, bees, and butterflies while my home becomes more and more empty apart from eroded concrete and car bits.
It's probably all the pesticides and habitat erosion.