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Bryson's America: Why would you walk? >I'LL TELL you this, but you'll have to promise that it will go no further. Not long after we moved here we had the peopl

• ezconnect 5y ago
  Because suburban design in America is not designed for walking, their neighbor probably need to walk 2 to 3km to reach their next door neighbor.
  • jrimbault 5y ago
    That's just a half an hour walk. It happens to also be about the distance between my apt and my parent's apt. It's a distance I walk very often.
  • komadori 5y ago
    To quote Bryson's article: "but I have since come to realise that there was nothing especially odd in their driving less than a couple of hundred feet to visit us. Nobody walks anywhere in America nowadays." (emphasis mine)
• _ea1k 5y ago
  In my neighborhood, they'd take a golf cart.