Our north American minds can’t comprehend walking past ten or fifteen outdoor patios in the span of ten minutes on the same street, but we call it normal to spend 1 or 2 hours driving to a restaurants.
How often do I find myself driving between two stores within the same plaza/parking lot.
When you live in a area where everything is within walking distance of everything else, going out is trivial.
As someone who doesn’t like going out or meeting people, we’ve also ruined my experience. If I can’t walk everywhere in a city I at least want stars and bugs and birds and trees.
But the suburbs don’t have those things either. Literally the worst of all possible worlds.
Yeah suburbs from before cars were invented are typically quite nice. I live in one and I quite enjoy it. And they were probably much better when the countryside was a short walk away and a network of streetcars connected the whole city.
The answer is yes!
Our north American minds can’t comprehend walking past ten or fifteen outdoor patios in the span of ten minutes on the same street, but we call it normal to spend 1 or 2 hours driving to a restaurants.
How often do I find myself driving between two stores within the same plaza/parking lot.
When you live in a area where everything is within walking distance of everything else, going out is trivial.
As someone who doesn’t like going out or meeting people, we’ve also ruined my experience. If I can’t walk everywhere in a city I at least want stars and bugs and birds and trees.
But the suburbs don’t have those things either. Literally the worst of all possible worlds.
Tree suburbs used to be very common, but now most new suburbs don’t even have these either.
Most stuff just looks like this now
Yeah suburbs from before cars were invented are typically quite nice. I live in one and I quite enjoy it. And they were probably much better when the countryside was a short walk away and a network of streetcars connected the whole city.
Even then there’s hardly any stars.
I just did that and I’m in Canada. It’s not impossible, just generally limited to bigger cities right now.