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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

and for shorter distances (like grocery stores and stuff) you can usually just walk.

Sometimes. Depending on your neighborhood, it might be a ridiculously long walk to get to the grocery store. At my parents' house it is a 30 minute walk with up to a 200ft change in elevation to get to the nearest grocery store.

City planning needs to allow for grocery stores to be better spread out within neighborhoods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

idk I've never been to a place where a grocery store is more then 600m away (even in remote villages..) but that depends on the country i guess...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's also very country dependent. I live in the U.S. so I am kinda fucked if I want my transportation to the grocery store to be anything other than a car.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I live in a fairly walkable, semi-urban area in a large city (over 3 million) in the US. The closest stores are .7, .9 and 1.1 miles away which is 1100 meters through 1750 meters.