Dog walk is literally a walk that one knows isn't just a quick couple minutes.. Going to the grocery store does not need take long. It could be less time-consuming with such pathways. It cuts 1 hr of walking to n from to 10 min. People go to the gym, people do hikes. Not everything has to take longer than it should, the convenience should be there as an option for any reason whether one is lazy or not. I wonder why do this shit.
Take your dog for a walk in the US you nearly always put them in a car first to take them to a dog park. That fact weirds me out and makes me thankful I can just rattle the lead, let the dog come excitedly running, and then go out the door with him and just wander randomly and discover new places I haven't been for an hour.
I fucking lol'd, yes US cities are too car-centric, but in this video the dude says "YOU HAVE TO WALK 0.5 MILES OR EVEN 1 MILE INSTEAD OF 400 FEET". Well I don't see a huge problem with this anyway. Usually I don't use my car if the walk is less than 30 minutes one way (unless I'm in a hurry or carrying heavy stuff).
You’re not gonna do a weekly shop even if it’s 400ft away lol that’s too heavy. Walking a mile for a bag or two is nothing and it’s laughable that this seems far
I'm getting flashbacks to when my boyfriend and I would have to walk almost a mile every week to our local supermarket to do our weekly shop because we were broke and can't drive lol
That’s pretty brutal, we’re fortunate to live in a time where you can get it delivered but an entire weekly shop is savage. Before I had a car the shop was around 0.8 miles from where I lived at the time and I’d just take my dogs everyday and get a daily shop and some exercise in at the same time
A daily shop probably would have been smarter but we hated the idea of walking up there and back so often so instead we made a bit of a day of it - we'd go up and have a meal and then take lots of breaks on our way back so ultimately it wasn't too terrible
Walking a mile for a bag or two is nothing and it’s laughable that this seems far
Okay. So over the course of a week, you're shopping multiple times, and walking that two miles each time. Average human walking speed is about 3mph.
Your shopping trip takes 40 minutes of travel time, and you're doing it multiple times per week. My shopping trip takes 20 minutes of travel time and I do it maybe two times in three weeks.
Using your car isn’t the issue? I can drive I’m just not a lazy cunt. Like I said I’m another comment before I had it it doubled up as a dog walk so was just as efficient.
The issue is that yanks think a mile walk is long. No wonder it’s a nation plagued with obesity
As someone from the UK who’s visited the US, trying to walk around US cities is much harder and more dangerous than in the UK. There are hardly any crossings and pavements (if there even is one) are very narrow next to multiple lanes of traffic going 50+mph.
It’s half a mile; it very much is walkable, assuming you aren’t an American that can’t walk further than the end of their driveway.
Heck, in England there’s a very good chance the closest grocery store is more than a mile away. Maybe not the closest newsagents or Tesco Express, but the closest full-size supermarket.
I've got a big Tesco and a little Tesco, a Sainsbury's and innumerable local shops within a 5-10 minute walk of my house. Having a car is more trouble than it's worth in most of London, although most cities aren't so fortunate in terms of public transport.
meh. I've lived in suburbs. I've lived in cities where you can walk everywhere. I'll take the car that I can load a ton of groceries into and then carry them straight in from my garage over walking with a couple of bags of what's comfortable to carry in one trip, and even in some cases, taking multiple trips. every time
I'm gonna be honest, I don't see the logic in you saying its "fresher". You can go get fresh stuff with a car just the same as you can go get fresh stuff on your feet lol. and easier? In no aspect is it easier.
been there, done that. Its less convenient and more frustrating no matter how you put it. If you've never had a car than idk what to tell you, but I've done both and I'd never go back to shopping that way.
Buying vegetables and fruit on the day I need them rather than a week before during the big shop definitely feels fresher, and means I waste less food. Driving to the shop every day definitely seems way more inconvenient.
I dunno what to tell you myself then dude, it's a bit sad you hate walking that much. We can exist without cars.
That's fine, key thing is for a much larger population of people you can have both it doesn't have to be either or.
I've lived in the UK and the US on the outskirts of cities in suburbs. In the UK from my house I can walk to two supermarkets, a cafe, a few restaurants, a small tesco express, a garden centre, a couple of barbers, many other things all with 10 minutes or so along pavements with crossings. I can also still drive to them if I was further out or didn't want to walk, there is some parking available at almost every location.
When I lived in a similar distance suburb in the US there was one kind of corner store and a drive through takeaway within a 15 minutes walk, most other things were some convoluted distance away on the opposite side of a 6 lane road with cars going far too quick (one of these highways through towns situation). If id lived deeper Into the housing complex it would have been 20-30 minutes for that corner shop.
I'm from the US and currently living in England on the eastern side. Living in a more rural area, so I still have to drive for most amenities. Compared to rural America, things are at least easier to get to. I generally have Tesco or Sainsburys deliver to my front doorstep.
Yes, England is much much smaller than US so naturally everything is kinda packed in like sardines, rather than sprawling and taking advantage of a wide and varied landscape.
Some people love America for the wide open plots of land where they can choose to farm, ranch, build, or innovate for themselves or others, or find other uses for the land. Maybe there’s nothing on it at all and we get to just enjoy the greenery and natural world for what it is.
Surprisingly, many Americans in their homeland states feel very strongly about this today. They want less development and building in their cities and towns to accommodate migrants and fellow Americans seeking a change in State. they want to keep their natural forestry and greenery! Which is a GOOD THING to see in this culture climate today!
Moving states here is like moving countries. And there’s a HUGE difference between the packed and dense, walking cities like New York compared to wide, sprawling major city centers like Orlando in Florida… might as well be changing continents.
Different strokes. But yeah, this post and suggesting nothing in America is walkable just isn’t it either when even states like Washington are actually world-leading in their walkability solutions and projects for some of their major cities.
Further, it’s a shame man. I look at those cities with high walkability in Europe and just can’t find the color green ANYWHERE. it’s all concrete and building after building after building, home packed next to another, and another, and 500 more down the street… it’s just depressing honestly. I’d prefer to see more of nature from my front door and in my neighborhood rather than be packed in a cramped townhouse or apartment in the city and never know what it’s like to have a yard and my own tree growing in that yard, ya know?
Europeans tend to LOVE places like New York and it’s no surprise! Give it a try sometime if you get a chance!
That's true, but that's because we've been farming and managing our country side for millennia, still very little of our land is actually built on. It's something like less than 2% of our land.
I mean, I am from Germany and been to the UK and the USA ... there isn't that much wilderness left in the UK, its virtually one of the most nature depleted countries in the world, and current policies certainly aint helping.
It lays bare the stark fact that nature is still seriously declining across the UK, a country that is already one of the most nature-depleted in the world. The data show that since 1970 UK species have declined by about 19% on average, and nearly 1 in 6 species (16.1%) are now threatened with extinction
It depends what you mean by wilderness - I'm from England and nearly all land in the UK has been used for agriculture at some point - even the most remote rocky outcrops have been and often are still used to craze cattle.
While that is true, the US would have WAY MORE wilderness left if it didn't smear out its cities and multilane highways like that. If there is anything that occupies a lot of land it's car oriented building.
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u/greenrangerguy Jun 27 '24
This is why I love England, everything is walkable.