I’ve heard the legends of having to drive to literally everywhere (e.g. drive thru banks), but I have no clue how far apart things are.
I live in suburban London where you can get to a big supermarket in 10 minutes of walking, a train station in 20 minutes and convenience stores are everywhere. You can get anywhere with bus and train in a few hours.
Can someone help a clueless British lemmyposter know how far things are in the US?
EDIT
Here are my walking distances:
- To the nearest convenience store: 250m
- To the nearest chain supermarket: 350m
- To the bus stop: 310m
- To the nearest park: 400m
- To the nearest big supermarket: 1.3km
- To the nearest library: 1.2km
- To the nearest train station: 1km
Straight-line distance to Big Ben: 16km
To be fair, you live in a large city. Cities here in the states also have many points of interest close by. In the suburbs, places are more spread out, same as they would be in the UK. It’s all about location.
I live in a town of 220,000 in the UK.
I’m a 5 minute walk from a small supermarket.
10 mins from a corner shop.
5 minute drive from a huge supermarket.
10 minute walk from a doctors’ surgery.
20 minute walk from a dentist’s.
20 minute walk from an opticians.
5 minute walk from a park.
15 minutes walk from primary and 10 minutes walk from a secondary school.
But we don’t really do suburbs in quite the same way, and they’re much more walkable than the pictures I’ve seen of US suburbia.