We drive

Everywhere

This does exist in major US cities, especially the older (by US standards) ones. I'm in San Francisco, in a "good" neighborhood, and restaurants, groceries, bars, and multiple forms of public transit are all a short walk away. This is very different in car centric suburbs/cities though.

I live in the EU but used to live in the US. In a nice part, too!

I lived like 400m from a small store. Never drove once. Insanely dangerous to walk on such a busy road with no sidewalks, no crossings, etc.

I walk a ton and bike ~80-100km/week now and don't think twice about it.

As an American I need you to understand that what you're saying sounds like a deep parody here. We have some major cities that are comfortable to live in without a car, but they're few and far between.

To us a grocery store is a place you go to rather than swing by real quick. Its changing in some cities, and I've even lived in a suburb with walkable groceries, but its really not the norm.

We tend to shop for days worth of food at a time.

They all want to live in a detached single home (is that how you call it?), so not enough density for a store to make profit. Glad I don't live there tbh.

100% satire or comedy. 3.7 miles is not "walkable". That's 7.4 miles round trip. 2-3 hours of walking.

I presume US schools have to buy/rent busses and pay bus drivers? Specifically to drive kids to/from school?
Instead of the council (or whatever) subsidising routes that connect new builds to schools, and giving under 16s free bus travel.

In my Australian town of half a million people (Canberra) our public transport is practically all buses, the same buses do the school services. We're pretty car based but still I have 3 commercial places within 20 minutes of walking, covering medical, groceries, two butchers, hairdressers, a few independent restaurants, a few chain takeaways. Our nearest pub closed years ago, taxes on alcohol got too high for people to meet a few times a week at a pub

Walking down highways is not advisable

Some are more deadly than others though

I think it has to be satire.

“Walkable” to a gas station is a strong indication of satire.

More walkable than some places. At least there is a side walk.

I can't think of any reason someone would post this without a hint of irony, but nowadays it's impossible to tell for sure

I mean it's the US, could be true.

This is ... imo, not satire.

It is simply an example of the opposite of a walkable neighborhood/community, literally framed at such an angle as to capture the ludicrousness of it.

It is an illustration of the absurdity of car-brained NA city design.

But it isn't exaggerated.

These kinds of developments, neighborhoods, are absolutely everywhere in the US, they are very common.

Even the use of 'walkable' may noy be satire: If there are sidewalks the whole way, well that would actually be uncommon, and many US policy makers and local city urban planners would actually, seriously, class this as walkable.

I am guessing folks from more civilized parts of the world are reading this as satire, because this seems unfathomably, beyond belief stupid.

... Welcome to America, we hate it here.

Considering reality do you blame them? This is hardly satire, just sarcastic pointing out (US) reality.

Why don't the just build a new liquor store in the middle of the new houses? That solves it all

If this is satire, well just know that this still exists in the United States.. I've seen this nonsense. It's like they don't even bat an eye. Like car culture is so ingrained in our society that people look at us probably like we're freaks. And it affects how we operate as people.

Of course it's satire. I'm kind of shocked how many people don't recognize it as satire.

Nope. My city is both trying to make the old streetcar suburb neighborhoods walkable again while also annexing places that are miles of road with nothing but sterile housing along it.

When develops buy some farmland, plunk a bunch of terribly build single family houses on it, sell it all off, and walk away the people who bought the houses find out that they're not in a municipality. They wanted a house and low taxes and their own yard, but there's no schools, fire dept, police, real water services, or road maintenance. So... They start begging to be annexed into the city to have the old downtown's taxes pay for their services.

It looks good on paper to add land and population, plus shiny new roads don't cost much for about 15 years, which is longer than most city council members stay on the council. It's someone else's problem when the bills come due. Our city council have been pushovers for decades and just keep adding shithole tax burden neighborhoods to the city and it's all starting to die fast.

Can this be done in sims 3?

No, it takes someone who hasn't sold their soul.

I believe he might be doing a comedy

To be fair, it has my next pack of smokes, beef jerky and beers, not just gas.

I often walk (checks notes) over 5km just to get to a convenience store.

Not alcoholism and domestic violence though

You can move out of America, try. I’m an American living abroad for decades now, and left with nearly zero cash and made a great life abroad.

Plot twist though, everywhere still has problems, just different ones, and the US’ bullcrap affects everyone everywhere including you no matter where you are. (Have why I still care and pay attention to it).

On the subject of this post, I live in a super walkable city, Shanghai, and do everything by bike (amazing, world class bike lanes), walking, subway, taxi, bus etc. and don’t have or need a car, it’s awesome.

aight

No because they’re quite literally illegal in most neighborhoods. This is starting to change but developers don’t want to do anything different or innovative so they’re still rolling out the same moronic plans we have for the past however many decades.

They basically only exist in more urban areas, not suburbs. And, as someone else mentioned, they mostly sell garbage.

No. They exist, but they basically only have beer, cigarettes, chips, and candy. No actual food.

They're also very badly overpriced.

Yes we have that concept. We just don't often have that reality.

Most are gone. T a combination of being zoned out and people being willing to drive 30 minutes to a big box store instead of walking 5 to a corner market nuked most of them.

I have a map of where they used to be in my city 100 years ago. (We do transit advocacy and need data on city history.) They used to be every 400m or so across the entire city, but now? Only a few remain.

They don’t. It sucks.

Yes. We have these, they are generally at gas stations! But as I said earlier, I have never been more than a few blocks from a corner store. They are not groceries though. Beer, diet coke, the Wawa by me has also reasonable food and fancy coffee. But if you need flour and produce, no. It's only stuff you eat without cooking, ready to go things.

The Walgreens does have more regular stuff, cat food and tape, shampoo, etc. So may be closer to what you are thinking of. There is one of those near me also, but one vs. 3 gas station shops.

don't take them for granted in the States

I think it is a few things and mostly centered on raising a family. I also think its lame but these are the reasons as I see them.

• They tend to have good schools

• They have front/back yards for children to play

• The buildings are physically separated so the chance you hear your neighbors is low

• The neighborhoods are much more quite

• The neighborhoods have low crime