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Most Americans would rather live in a big house in a car-based community than a small house in a walking-based community. (www.pewresearch.org)
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[–] 33 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

In many places in the us, apartments are built in such a way where they come with all the negatives, but also without many of the upsides that apartments should have.

I know several people who live in apartments, but there still isn't anywhere to walk to anyways!

Sure you might be able to, but if it requires crossing 80m of asphalt just to cross a street no one is going to do it.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago*

    Yes, there are garden apartments near shopping plazas but in order to access a grocery store, one needs to play Frogger across a 5 lane highway or 6 lane intersection. A lot of people get hit whether on bikes or on foot. You don't want to trust your life to some Zoomer or Boomer looking at their cell phone while careening down the road in their SUV or Pick-up.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Most Americans drive to their corner stores, I was so disappointed in my roommates once when I went to the (<5 minute walk) store and they decided to go too and passed me in the car halfway there.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    Yeah that's kind of ridiculous.

    But if we're being honest, most Americans don't even have access to a corner store.

    My newest grocery store is a 2 mile bike ride away. It's not awful, but it's also not that great. And my friends in apartments I've visited are even worse. I am at least lucky that the main road I have has a multi-use path that makes it tolerable.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Even when we have a corner store it may be useless. I was excited when my neighborhood got one and I tried to develop a habit of using it. But this “inconvenience “ store was useless. They’re really only interested in selling cigarettes and lottery tickets. Good riddance

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    In the NE, it is very cold, icy and dangerous to try to walk half a mile to a corner store during Winter.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Friend of mine got divorced and had to move out of her family home. She ended up in a nice apartment in a huge building, but with giant strides on all sides. It’s an island of inaccessibility

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