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To Americans: How far apart is everything in the US? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Based on the small town where I grew up:

convenience store: 2km
nearest chain/big supermarket: 5km
bus stop: what bus?
park: 10km (but there are hiking trails within 1km)
train (metro) station: 5km
library: 5km
long distance train station: 20km
my dad’s daily commute when I was growing up: 140km (that’s 140km each way, 5 days a week. 1200km of commuting each week. He did this with a combination of car, bike, and train. It took him about 3 hours each way.)

Note that a lot of the roads don’t have sidewalks so even if you want to walk it can be kinda dangerous depending on time of day.

Based on cities I’ve lived in:

convenience store: 300m
chain supermarket: 800m
bus stop: 500m
train (metro) station: 1km
park: 1.5km
library: 1.5km
big supermarket: 2.5km
long-distance train station: 2.7km
my current commute: 3km

The cities tend to be a lot more walkable, but you still need to take the car or train to get to things like by the bigger (and cheaper) supermarket and other stores. The train is slow and unreliable (sometimes it’s faster to walk than take the train) so cars are much more popular.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

This sounds about right for "normal" US towns and cities to me as well