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"The ability to get whatever you need, yes even groceries, within walking distance is a reality." No offence, but having lived in about 4 major US cities (Detr
by burgerbrain 15y ago
"The ability to get whatever you need, yes even groceries, within walking distance is a reality."
No offence, but having lived in about 4 major US cities (Detroit not included), that seems to be setting the bar awfully low. Being able to buy groceries is just a basic necessity, and restaurants/nightlife is something every city has.
- pyre 15y agoHe/she is coming from the Detroit suburbs though. Everything there is spread out and you really need a car to get anywhere. I used to drive ~20 minutes to get to the movie theater that I frequented. Granted, I lived within walking distance of a grocery store even in the suburbs, but that just happened to be the case.
- burgerbrain 15y agoYeah, but surely even people from the suburbs realize that that sort of thing is expected in nearly every city... after all, the city isn't the suburbs.
- homosaur 15y agoTell that to the folks living in downtown St Louis. We finally got a grocery store downtown last year. Not that it's a major city though.
- Tichy 15y agoWhy do people live in places without grocery stores? Serious question - unless you farm the groceries yourself?
- rms 15y agoA lot of people aren't very conscious about this kind of a decision and are used to a lifestyle of driving multiple miles before getting to a grocery store.
- Tichy 15y agoI must admit I don't know what it is like to live like that. Maybe if you only go shopping once a week (or even just every two weeks), it is not too bad.
- rms 15y agoI actually live about 1/2 mile from a great grocery store but regularly (~once per week) drive 2.5 miles to the greatest grocery store. It's not so bad. It's even easier to go that far or farther for people in the suburbs with fast roads or highways that go to their neighborhood-ish grocery store, rather than my town of Berkeley which has weird traffic calming patterns to try to actively discourage me from driving to the Berkeley Bowl West.
- roel_v 15y agoWikipedia says St Louis had 353k inhabitants; how can a city of that size not have grocery store? Not all of them could be eating out every single meal? Or is this for some specific definition of 'grocery store'?
- CognitiveLens 15y agoThe parent comment is referring to downtown in particular - of course the city has grocery stores, but many cities have few or no grocery options in the central business district, as suburbia sucked the life from downtown in the 80's and 90's.