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That wet/dry distinction might not be as big of a deal as you make it still depending on county size. North Carolina has 100(!!) counties, with only one dry sti

That wet/dry distinction might not be as big of a deal as you make it still depending on county size. North Carolina has 100(!!) counties, with only one dry still, at that size and with the typical spread between places you easily pass through a couple of counties daily just doing normal day-to-day stuff. For example, I live in Wake County but my grocery store is in Harnett County and my Best Buy is in Johnston County, all still within a 20 minute drive.

rsynnott 5y ago
I mean, I would imagine that many people might like to be able to walk to a pub (_driving_ to one doesn't seem like a great idea...) If alcohol sales are verboten in the county, this seems problematic.
- bsagdiyev 5y ago
  Where in the US do you live that a bar would be walking distance and also next to a dry county? All urban areas like that threw out those sorts of laws decades ago. Rural areas are typically where dry counties are found, but not always, but walking to a bar in the US is typically reserved for more built up areas (but once again not always)
  - rsynnott 5y ago
    I don't live in the US. Where I live, though, even in many rural areas walking into the local village would be feasible. There'd be _very_ rural places where you couldn't walk to anything, but they'd be the exception.
    - datameta 5y ago
      As an urbanite I was looked upon like a madman when I walked 30 minutes to the store from my academic campus which was hugged by a nature reserve on one side and a major highway on the other. Not having a car is a real hassle in the majority of the non-urban areas of this country. The only other people who thought to ever do something similar were international students from Bulgaria and Nepal that didn't blink twice at it.
      - ricardobeat 5y ago
        In most of European cities a 30 minute walk gets you over to the next town, not the nearest pub :)
        TheGigaChad 5y ago
        From where did you pull this one out? Your ass?
        datameta 5y ago
        In NYC 30 minutes later you're maybe one or two neighborhoods down ;)

rsynnott 5y ago

I mean, I would imagine that many people might like to be able to walk to a pub (_driving_ to one doesn't seem like a great idea...) If alcohol sales are verboten in the county, this seems problematic.

bsagdiyev 5y ago
Where in the US do you live that a bar would be walking distance and also next to a dry county? All urban areas like that threw out those sorts of laws decades ago. Rural areas are typically where dry counties are found, but not always, but walking to a bar in the US is typically reserved for more built up areas (but once again not always)
- rsynnott 5y ago
  I don't live in the US. Where I live, though, even in many rural areas walking into the local village would be feasible. There'd be _very_ rural places where you couldn't walk to anything, but they'd be the exception.
  - datameta 5y ago
    As an urbanite I was looked upon like a madman when I walked 30 minutes to the store from my academic campus which was hugged by a nature reserve on one side and a major highway on the other. Not having a car is a real hassle in the majority of the non-urban areas of this country. The only other people who thought to ever do something similar were international students from Bulgaria and Nepal that didn't blink twice at it.
    - ricardobeat 5y ago
      In most of European cities a 30 minute walk gets you over to the next town, not the nearest pub :)
      - TheGigaChad 5y ago
        From where did you pull this one out? Your ass?
      - datameta 5y ago
        In NYC 30 minutes later you're maybe one or two neighborhoods down ;)