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There are more important things to spend money on than replacing every street sign in America, do you have any idea how much that would cost?

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The most common usage of metric in this country is probably legal/illegal drugs.

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The onus should be on foreigners to convert to our system when they visit our country and vice versa.

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It's not necessary and if the reason for forcing the issue is "everyone else is does it" then it's not a very good reason



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I have no idea how much it would cost. Probably a lot if it was done at once. Also, not every street would need to be replaced.My city took to doing this thing several years ago where they replaced actual street signs (not speed limit ones, but the ones that named the street) when they became worn out and faded. But when they put a new one up, it had a logo type thing on it for the school that was near the street as a way to be cute or show school spirit or whatever. It was completely unnecessary, but neighborhood people loved it. It also did not impact our property taxes because it was only replacing the signs as needed so that was already in the local budget. I guess the added logo was insignificant enough to not change a thing for us. Perhaps I am being unrealistic and trying to place local understanding on a national level and it very well does not work that way. I have no idea.My guess would have gone to shopping. A lot of online clothing stores provide metric measurements and maybe a size conversion chart for people who can't do their own conversions. But now that you mention it, drug dealers do use metric, don't they. I didn't think about that one.Not trying to be difficult here, just trying to understand... So the point with not changing things up comes down to not only a problem with change in the way of like, if it's not broke don't fix it kinda thing? I mean, yeah, inches and feet, miles and whatever do work just fine. It's not as though there is some flaw with that system. It has been in place and used by not only many people, but many institutions for so long it's pervasive in our culture/environment/lives and all of that. Right? And it's also not as though there is some inherent reluctance to use the metric system when dealing with other countries, so why is the respect not reciprocated when they deal with us? Why make us change when we are not trying to make others change? Am I getting it?