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> The vast majority of people do not live a 1 minute walk from a grocery store, even in dense urban areas. In the US, which was the point of my original commen
by rglullis 4y ago
> The vast majority of people do not live a 1 minute walk from a grocery store, even in dense urban areas.
In the US, which was the point of my original comment. Here in Berlin I have at least 4 stores (Edeka, Lidl, Al Natura and a no-name Bio Markt ) in a 200m radius.
(edit: I am not one to complain about downvotes, but it is ridiculous to see this comment in gray, yet no one able to actually address the point. Bad urban planning and car-dependency in North America is intertwined with a lot of cultural aspects of the society, including this ridiculous notion that groceries are "inconvenient" and therefore better if done in bulk and/or less frequently)
- pessimizer 4y agoThe downvotes are probably because you're claiming that you walk 200m in a minute.
- rglullis 4y agoIt is not the claim at all and still missing the point.
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- astrange 4y agoThe urban planning in the US was intentional; rather than bad it was evil. Berkeley invented “residential only zoning” to create neighborhoods of white office workers because Chinese immigrants were thought to run businesses out of their homes and wanted to ban them. (You can just look up their city council meeting minutes and they’d say this.) These days you might face resistance to allowing light industrial again because people would accuse it of creating traffic and possibly leading people to park in front of their house - Nextdoor posters’ main principle is they should be able to park everywhere for free and nobody else should.