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Walk 10 mins...? What bull shit magic fantasy land do you hail form that ANYTHING is a 10 min walk away. The nearest fast food to me would be like just shy of a 2 hour walk at an avg pace.
For most people getting anywhere is like 8-12 miles here in America if not further.
Pretty much every country except for the USA seems to be a bull shit magic fantasy land. At least when living in any kind of larger city.
The US is doing very badly. Growing up it was a 3 mile walk to the nearest gas station let alone anywhere that served food.
Usually was unsafe to walk that since there were no sidewalks and I'd be charged by at least 3 dogs in the way.
One time I tried to start exercising and decided to walk down my road. I had a cop circle me for 20 minutes, and 3 people offered me a ride which was nice but they were so confused that I was just walking
Canada is the same as USA in that regard. The only restaurant in 10 minutes walking distance to my place is Wendy's. Anything good is 30 to 60 minutes walk or 5-10 minutes drive.
As an European, this is bullshit. 10 minutes walking (5km/h) is 830m, living at 415m in walking distance (not air) from a restaurant is statistically unlikely for anyone not living in a city center. Let alone actually having more than one choice.
I can walk to a spot, but it's 15 Minutes there and then again back, plus getting dressed, plus waiting for my order. I could order pick-up of course, but at that point I would have to use the same app I can use to get it delivered. Can I spare an hour for dinner? When I'm meeting someone, of course. Several even. But when I just need to eat something, I'm not going to.
This may not necessarily apply to you, but those 30 minutes of walking would do wonders for the overall health of your average American.
If it's more affordable for you to order someone else to drive through the city to bring you food that someone cooked for you then there's something nefarious going on.
Wdym more affordable? I pay extra. I buy an hour of lifetime for like 3€. Sounds like a great deal to me.
If it makes more sense to focus on your specialization while paying somebody who specializes in local food delivery to do the delivery... No, yeah, that kinda sounds right. The actual issues I see here are not valuing the labor of delivery and getting too lazy, and maybe an issue where people are generally too time-pressured to take a break to get the food.
Hi, yes, that's a very USian issue. We here don't believe in the separation of residential and commercial areas.
Sim City taught me that causes something called “congestion “ and the sims get pretty pissed about it.
Seems like USAians are very happy with congestion.
The UK separates like this, but residential are dotted with small stores, and industrial areas are strictly business warehouses and factories and such. Large stores are near the commercial/town centres and occasionally by the industrial.
My lazy as SIL and her boyfriend will doordash food that's a block away from the house.
I am so glad to be living in Seattle. I have at least 2 food trucks at breweries a 2 min walk away, sometimes 4 trucks. There’s also a Chinese place we love going to once a month for their to go boxes that’s about 6 mins away. But don’t live downtown or apartments all around (not that it would be bad, just making a point). It’s great to be walkable without all the noise.
Other cities need this but we gotta get rid of suburbia and most lawns really.
Ok, just replace the word "walk" with "drive" and the point still stands for most of the rest of america. In fact it shows even more laziness as driving is much easier.
well I have like 10 restaurants within 10 mins walk...
One of the "perks" of living in poor parts of a city is having fast food within walking distance.
Then you're a privileged person who shouldn't be shitting on people who don't have it as good as you.
No I'm not I just live in a different country. Still poor, I would be the person working this job if I didn't have another bad job already.
Money is not the only form of privilege.
There are 8 billion people on this world. You and your experiences account for about 0.000000012% of the human experience. You're absolutely stupid if you think your experience is anything like what others are. You live in a privileged city as a privileged person. You can talk about workers right without being a complete and utter ass clown about it. Please learn how to.
Do you not understand you and your experiences equates to fuck all to me nor anybody else besides yourself and or those in close proximity to you.
You're a narcissist clown who would rather shove his fingers ears in his ears and keep feeling superior then realize that that is NOT the norm for almost everybody.
You would rather deny people their own experiences than admit your experience is not universal.
You are the epitome of "boomerism". It's all about me and I'm always right.
You can talk about yourself and your experiences. That's fine. What you can't do is be a privileged insufferable cunt about it and insist that your experiences trump every else's.
I hate to be the person to throw a brick into a spinning washing machine, but chill out.
You're probably talking to somebody who would agree with you, someone who would be a friend.
You have a lot of absolutely righteous and justified anger about a situation that they're attempting to make light of. I can see how you would take that personally. I also would take it personally if I were in your shoes.
Even though this situation is what it is, it's still a good idea to attempt to drizzle a little honey on the words that you use to communicate it with them so that you can pull them to your side and explain your reasoning without pushing them out of the social group, right?
I'm in New York City. There's maybe a dozen food places within ten minutes. There's more, but some of them may be in the 15-20 minute range. Several million people live here.
What hell do you live in that's so remote?
Literally any suburb.
Anywhere that is not a city? Each time these things come up, I become more and more convinced that city dwellers have no clue what it is like to live anywhere else.
I was asking which specific hell they live in, but clearly I did not phrase my question clearly.
It's just that the vast majority of people live in cities. So whatever some rural people are doing - good. But maybe y'all need to cook and not expect some poor person to work 80h/week hauling your soggy fast food around just to break even - that's not far from slavery.
If you can regularly afford delivery you're certainly way better off than them.
Yes and no, most people do live in cities (if we're still talking about the US), but a minority of those cities are actually walkable. And many cities are limited in what areas are walkable.
It's hard to find data on this obviously, so I can only speak anecdotally. Take a city like Dallas for example the core portion can be walkable, but it very quickly turns into un-walkable sprawl. Cities like Seattle and New York are very walkable. Then you have cities like Jacksonville and Orlando that are absolutely un-walkable.
I'd wager that more population lives in this un-walkable areas since the cores usually host buisnesses instead of apartments
The idea that the core of Dallas is walkable is hilarious. There are portions of DFW that have been specifically curated to be walkable, but they're usually akin to a theme park. You drive there, park in a giant parking lot (or worse, just endless strips of store front parking), then walk around what is effectively an outdoor shopping mall.
Ok but if cities are not walkable, just don't get food delivered on the regular.
You really just have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
A city may contain as few as 1 person. Cities are not defined by their total population or by their population density. Large cities are NOT the norm. You're the exception. You're the special case. You're privileged. You're rude. You're out of touch. Maybe travel.
not true
Absolutely no population requirement
Man, I grew up in the country and I feel like it took practically no time to get what city living is like (currently live in one). You really are proud of having no idea what other ways of life are like? It's supposed to be rural people that are the ignorant ones.
No, I was asking about which specific hell they live in. edit: not specific like "give me your address" but like, suburb, countryside, whatever. Maybe I shouldn't post before breakfast.
Fair enough, but honestly 99% of the places you can live in America are like that or worse. Your mind would be blown if you took a road trip in the American southwest. I drove on one highway in new Mexico that didn't have cell service for a 2 hour stretch. More than an hour between gas stations. And I actually saw homes people lived in out there.
I've lived in the suburbs and traveled around the US a fair amount. I think sometimes about a time I was in suburban Illinois, and we were like "maybe we can order some food." Opened up google maps and it was a wasteland. I think there was like one KFC open in the area.
My mind is more blown by why people defend living like that. Or actively choose it. It's a horrible kind of place to live.
Ok, fine, sometimes there are tradeoffs. A guy I know bought a house out in the sticks someplace in the northeast. Has a yard for his kids. It's not too expensive. But it's a long-ass drive to get anywhere, and there's nothing to do. Not a trade I would make.
I think we are pretty much on the same exact page actually. Having grown up in a place that pretty much is a wasteland but is also far from the worst place, I also wonder how anyone chooses it. But on the other hand for a lot of people it doesn't feel like a choice even if it technically is. Some people just can't imagine leaving their friends and family behind.
If I had my perfect living situation, I would live in the woods but still be a safe 20 min bike ride from a bustling city. That would be the best of both worlds imo. Seems like a pipe dream really, other than maybe in Colorado, sort of. Denver didn't seem like it would be my favorite city when I briefly visited.
Almost literally anywhere other than where you live.
You're a privileged person who has no idea what you're talking about. You need to get out of you think that is the norm.
I think you're just duckspeaking words like "privileged".
You live in like one of the top 10 cities in the world. Shut up. Your experiences don't trump real people's real struggles.
What kind of place do you live?
Why does one of the most populous cities experience not count?
Why are you so emotionally invested in this?
Do people in large cities not struggle? Why do you think one set of struggles trump another?
Are you alright, dude?
You insisted everybody was wrong because you've lived a different experience and that your experience is the "true" experience.
You're a narcissist jackass. Instead of taking any amount of time to think about others and their experiences you immediately went to you and your experiences and attempted to negate others experiences.
NYC is not "a city" it's fuckig NYC. You have almost nothing in common with people who live in "cities". You're a special case and if you cannot realize that then you are incredibly thick.
You could have said "Damn that sucks. I live in NYC and ..." but no you said "I live in NYC. You're wrong".
You're very angry and not worth the time to engage with further. I'm sorry for anyone in your life. Goodbye.
You're a selfish, unimaginative cunt :)