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Same figures for me:
Wow. I thought I lived in a pretty walkable part of Atlanta. I really only use my car for the grocery or a 'big' shopping trip.
And I don't even live anywhere the centre: I live in one of the only London boroughs without an Underground station, that borders ~~no man's land~~ the outside of London
I have never lived in a big city, always living in the suburbs where everything is a drive away. But nothing was too far away to drive to so when I talk about where something is today, even if it's 10 miles away, I'm like "it's just around the corner".
Grocery Store: 4.4 Miles Pharmacy: 4.9 Miles Doctors: 6.4 Miles Library: 2.4 miles
It's a two-hour round trip walk to the nearest convenience store, and its also through rough terrain and lawns that people don't cut
Small town in Oregon here (all measured along the routes walked, not 'as the crow flies'):
Now, I'm not entirely sure what separates a supermarket from a "big supermarket" in your mind, because to me all supermarkets are quite big by definition, so I'm going to explore three different trip options: one each to two supermarkets in or near my town, and one to the nearest Walmart, which I'm 100% sure should count as a "big supermarket", but which is a couple towns away.
Supermarket A is close enough that walking to it is a viable option, which would be ~730 meters to the edge of the parking lot or ~875 meters to the front of the store. Alternatively, if I can plan the scheduling of my trip around it or I'm not picky about the timing I can walk ~100 meters to the nearest stop in the city bus loop, wait a while, and walk of right at the front.
Supermarket B is 2.6 kilometers by foot, but a large part of that trip is walking along the side of a lightly-developed highway with no sidewalks, so I don't consider walking here a viable option. By bus it's the same 100 meters to the bus stop, wait, then directly to the storefront.
The nearest Walmart is ~25 kilometers away by car, but the local bus company doesn't offer a direct route to that town so I have to take a bus to Town C, take the Town C Bus Company's bus to the east edge of Town D, then take Town D's bus to the Walmart on the western edge. Google Maps says this would take just over 2 hours one-way, and it would cost $2 ($4 round trip) because Town D's busses are all free to ride at the moment.
The only measure on here that matters to most of the US is the Big Ben, and that is only our daily commute.
The US is big.
Meter measures are for rifle shots or bike rides. Maybe runs. It's not a real measure of travel for us.
I live in a planned community where everything is supposed to be accessible by walking or biking. There are greenway paths all over the place. I generally drive because I can't carry a weeks worth of food on my bike and most destinations don't have a safe place to lock your bike up. An unattended bike seems to be considered a free bike.
Highest annual average miles driven per driver is Wyoming with 24,069 mi per year or about 65.898 mi a day.
Lowest is Rhode Island with 9,961 mi per year or 27.272 per day
The top 10 populous cities have the average physical distance between as 1241.3, 1070.5, and 1073.7 miles for places, urban areas, and core-based statistical areas, respectively.
The longest driveable stretch between two populations of any type is over 5,000, but the USA also has several pacific territories.
Btw I know you people tend to get confused so to prevent you from crashing and dying:
1 mi = 1.609344 km
1 km = 0.6213712 mi
Example:
1241.3 mi * 1.609344 km/m = 1,997.6787072 km
As far as walking is considered, theres a ton of grid plans as well as cul de sac plans in the USA which are frankly inferior for walkability compared to our European Neighbors.
Convenience store - 700m Grocery store -1,2km Bus stop - 150m Park - 400m Big supermarket - 1,2km Library - 2,5km Train station - 79km
about 20 minutes to the grocery store, 5 to the convenience store, about 10 to the bus stop 20 to the park. West coast.
Phoenix suburbs
We don't really have public transportation at all
Nearest convenience store 1.5 miles
Nearest chain grocery store 4.2 miles
Nearest big grocery store (Costco)2.8 miles
Nearest library 1.9 miles
Nearest park 0.6 miles(there's a playground closer but it's tiny)
Straight line to big Ben 5285 miles
Where my friend lives, in a typical American suburb:
(These feel like clues to Jet Lag: the Game - Hide and Seek...)
According to wikipedia, the contiguous 48 states of the US (which occupy the middleish part of North America) are 8,080,464.3 km2, compared to Europe’s 10,180,000 km2, so that should give you an idea. My country is nearly as big as your entire continent, thus things are very spread out. Also our entire modern culture was designed around cars, suburbs and racism, so towns are flat, expansive and nothing is close to anything useful unless you have a car—woe to those without (myself included).
it takes half an hour to walk (one-way) to the nearest store
250 m to the nearest mini market
400 to the nearest mini mall
1k to the railroad station
400 to the park
150 to the (unreliable) bus stop
