To Americans: How far apart is everything in the US? - eviltoast

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

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    How we move around fascinates me, and I think it’s a huge reason for a lot of social issues we face here in the states. I’ll go as far as most of them.

    There’s a neat video I found a while back that almost sums everything up perfectly: The Housing Crisis is the Everything Crisis

    I say “almost,” because the one thing it fails to do is take one step backward and realize that the housing crisis is itself caused by single-family zoning and lack of walkable density!

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I’ll watch today! But yes I think the same thing! We only allow single family homes which means everything is spread out too far, which means there aren’t enough homes within a given area… Which means we need both better transit to reach those areas and/or to upzone to denser housing