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This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers (pbs.twimg.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is apparently in Columbus, Ohio -- a pretty major city by any stretch of the imagination.

And yet there are people who rail (geddit?) against 15-minute cities and efficient public transit that ensures no one ever gets stuck like this.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Living in Wroclaw, PL. Closest grocery store is 100m from where I live. Closest discount store is 350m. Closest hypermarket is 850m. Closest mall is 600m. Closest bakery is 50m. Closest restaurant is 250m, 300 for kebab, 450 for mexican, chinese, thai, korean, and italian, 600m for sushi Closest pharmacy is 300m. Closest clinic is 450m. Closest hospital is 1,3km. Closest bank is 100m.

Very not city centre btw. When your apartment is closer to things you need than the distance between free parking spot and the shop in US the car becomes pretty useless

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

Surely thats not applicable in most of the world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

Similar in Turku, Finland.

And I live on the very edges of the city. 500m to a store and pharmacy, supermarket a bit further. But there's buses that go like every 7 min during the day.

Now they're also opening more cross city lines, so that'll make it so that I have a bus stop outside my building that will take me to one of the largest malls in Finland in a few minutes. And the other connection takes me to the centre of the city which has a mall even larger by sales.

I've not owned a car for years, and even when I buy lots of groceries, the bus connections are so good that I've not needed a car. I'm a single guy though, but sometimes I'll have like 25kg of groceries on me when I weigh myself for the luls. A backpack and bags in both hands.

If I need something bigger that requires a car, I can use a taxi or loan a car from a friend.