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While the streets are quiet, it’s really not fun to walk in neighborhoods where every house looks the same, and where there’s no visual variety. Personally I f
by Ar-Curunir 4y ago
While the streets are quiet, it’s really not fun to walk in neighborhoods where every house looks the same, and where there’s no visual variety.
Personally I find a 15-minute walk in my suburban neighborhood feels much longer than a 15-minute walk in the town where my college was located.
The other extremely irritating part is the completely ass-backwards design of suburban neighborhoods that makes walking to places much longer than necessary. Eg: there’s a grocery store literally right behind my house, but without a door in my backyard, it would take me 5+ minutes to walk there.
- listenallyall 4y agoHow is it ass-backwards for a grocery store not to install a door and entrance for the custom use of a single household?
- Ar-Curunir 4y agoNone of the houses on my street have easy access either. The point of that anecdote wasn’t that everyone should have backyard doors, but rather that the street design should make it easy to get to places, and not require circuitous routes that make life difficult for pedestrians.