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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house? (mediacdn.aus.social)

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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

#fuckcars #walkability #urbanism #UrbanPlanning @fuck_cars #walking

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

Shot.

Just kidding, I live in Europe. :) All the things in the list except the arena.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There's no university or sports arena within 15 minutes of me but, the bus station will take me to either and I could walk to the sports arena if I really felt like it. I think the movie theater might be closer to a 20 minute walk but that's still reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The fact that it's called a gas station rather than convenience store on a survey about walking is somewhat disappointing.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can get to everything except the hospital, mall, movie theatre, and University in twenty minutes. If I use public transport I can get to those in about half an hour.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I knew I was pretty far away from anything. Just checked on maps and I'm 1 hour from the closest business walking. It's a dog kennel. Another 20 minutes I can be at a cafe, same story if I go in the other direction, about 1 hour and 20 to a small market. Roughly 5 miles. Biking would be a out 25 minutes, maybe faster if I hustle. Driving is just minutes. No bus or train nearby at all. ( There used to be a train that ran through my neighborhood about 100 years ago). I live in northeast US

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I have 11, outside Boston, but where is the train station in the survey?

movie theater is 25 minutes fast walk, although past my threshold so I’ve always driven.
why the eff would I want to walk to a gas station? If they mean convenience store, I have two even closer
I prefer NOT to be near the things with large crowds: hospital, university, arena, mall
hospital question is out of date, should really distinguish hospital from urgent care or doctors office

I lived near Fenway Park once, and it was horrible. Do not recommend. The positive was I could goto a game after work and look for half price tickets after they start, but freely choose not to go if I didn’t get my price. But the noise, the mess, and the crowds making things just unuseable was not worth it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm only missing 3 here in Philadelphia, a hospital, movie theater, and university. Though there are plenty of urgent care facilities around my location. And if we include a 15 minute bus ride, I can get to all three. I had to think in where the nearest theater was.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can't get to any of those within a 15-minute walk from my house because I don't live in a city. I apologize for my lack of urban living.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used to live in a small town, less than 20k people, I could walk to several instances of each of these things in about 10 minutes (except a university or hospital, which were a 15 minute drive away). This in Mexico.

I don't know why it couldn't be done in the US...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't live in a town at all. I live in the country. I don't want to walk to a grocery store 15 minutes away because I don't want them to cut down a bunch of trees or plow up a farmer's field to make one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's your choice to live in bumfuck nowhere, this conversation isn't about you...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, my "choice" to get the only house my family could afford close enough to where we work.

How dare I choose to not be homeless!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

So you could only afford a shit shack, therefore it wasn't your choice, yet somehow want to dictate how civilized places build infrastructure as if it was your choice? Do you need a dictionary to look up "hypocrisy"?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I grew up in a village of 3000 in rural England. We had three pubs, a post office, two grocery/general stores, a butcher, a baker, a village hall, a doctor and a pharmacy, a primary and a secondary school, a church...

that is how life used to be for the majority of people across the world.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Great. I don't live in a village. I live out in the country. Are you saying we should chop down the woods and pave over the farm fields so that I can walk to a bunch of shops?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Grocery stores can be small, also farmer towns exist where a small community lives with their farms around them. There are ways of doing it and it's done in several places.

But I concede that the bigger the place the easier it is to do a 15 minute city.

So, you're fine. Big cities and suburbs have no excuse, tho.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As an Englishman, I counted 8 of these.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Seven for me, and I'm in a village. When I lived in the nearest town, I had almost all of them.

Rather than looking at the "I want" list, I'm looking at the "I don't want" list.

What lunatic DOESN'T want a grocery store, a park or a bus stop within 15 minutes of them?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Rural" Netherlands, 14.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

                    Sore feet

#RuralLife

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