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Assuming you were in a city rather than a rural area, is it because US school are larger & fewer? Nowhere in my hometown (250k mid-sized city) is more than 10-1
by ido 7y ago
Assuming you were in a city rather than a rural area, is it because US school are larger & fewer? Nowhere in my hometown (250k mid-sized city) is more than 10-15 minutes walk from a school.
- plopz 7y agoNew Jersey doesn't have cities that large.
- lonnyk 7y agoI was curious so I checked. According to Wikipedia we've two over 250k and 7 over 100k! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
- lonnyk 7y ago> is it because US school are larger & fewer I don't know because I know very little about schools outside the US. My best guess would be that they vary everywhere and this isn't US specific. > Assuming you were in a city rather than a rural area Before I was born and when I was younger there were quite a few farms, but I didn't grow up with them. So I suppose it used to be rural and now is a suburb (in-between rural and a city). My town has about ~30k people. There are a lot of sprawling cities (and I _think_ Boston may be one of those) where it would also be greater distances to walk to a school. ..so I'm not sure being a city is correlated to short walking distances to school.