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I agree with the main point of the article. I just disliked some of the specific examples. "You would t spend the entire day walking where you live" - some time

I agree with the main point of the article. I just disliked some of the specific examples. "You would t spend the entire day walking where you live" - some times I do! "You don't go to museums where you live" - I didn't until I moved to a city with amazing museums, and now I do!

vidarh 3y ago
And even when I don't, part of the reason I want to do them while travelling is that I'm freed from my daily route and somewhere new. I've done 1h+ walks along pretty much every route from my house. I've done some 3h walks in a single direction to/from where I live and relied on transport to get me the other way so I was happy to walk further. I've done many of those walks many times, and they are enjoyable, but sometimes I want to walk somewhere new. Last year, for example, I spent about 3h a day walking Nice. I covered most of the tram network on foot because I wanted to see areas well outside the typical tourist areas. I could've done the same length walks at home, but I'd have seen places I've already been many times. And often even when you go to destinations where your home might well even have superior options sometimes, the point is partly that it's different and new and that in itself has a qualitative difference in how you experience it (try walking down a street you've never walked anymore and be present, and walk down the same street again every day for a week - the experience noticeably changes), but also often simply that it creates an adventure, even if a tiny one, exactly because it's not something you usually do on top of being somewhere you usually aren't.
crooked-v 3y ago
On that note, I live downtown in a city specifically because it lets me accomplish all day to day needs and most day to day wants entirely by walking.
acidioxide 3y ago
That's true. I already know every bit of my city, I have visited almost all museums, walked almost every street. If I have the opportunity to do the same elsewhere, I will.
NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
My parents are members of several museums and societies in their large city. Now normally the member benefits provide tickets and passes multiple times per year that present opportunities for locals to visit the museums "for free" because they are already paying members. (There are also free days for everyone.) But my parents are part of that sizable minority of members who never go to these places on their own. So every time I visited home, there would be an appreciable pile of passes and vouchers on the mantelpiece, and Mom and Dad would encourage me to take a friend, or my sister, and have an outing with the free passes, so we could at least use them up. So this is the case in my family. Now I can see where people who love visiting museums become members in their own towns, get free passes, and visit there often, right in their backyard. I can also see people becoming members because they love entertaining visitors and they can show those visitors a good time if they have a supply of free passes on-hand and ready for when someone new comes around.

vidarh 3y ago

And even when I don't, part of the reason I want to do them while travelling is that I'm freed from my daily route and somewhere new. I've done 1h+ walks along pretty much every route from my house. I've done some 3h walks in a single direction to/from where I live and relied on transport to get me the other way so I was happy to walk further. I've done many of those walks many times, and they are enjoyable, but sometimes I want to walk somewhere new. Last year, for example, I spent about 3h a day walking Nice. I covered most of the tram network on foot because I wanted to see areas well outside the typical tourist areas. I could've done the same length walks at home, but I'd have seen places I've already been many times. And often even when you go to destinations where your home might well even have superior options sometimes, the point is partly that it's different and new and that in itself has a qualitative difference in how you experience it (try walking down a street you've never walked anymore and be present, and walk down the same street again every day for a week - the experience noticeably changes), but also often simply that it creates an adventure, even if a tiny one, exactly because it's not something you usually do on top of being somewhere you usually aren't.

crooked-v 3y ago

On that note, I live downtown in a city specifically because it lets me accomplish all day to day needs and most day to day wants entirely by walking.

acidioxide 3y ago

That's true. I already know every bit of my city, I have visited almost all museums, walked almost every street. If I have the opportunity to do the same elsewhere, I will.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago

My parents are members of several museums and societies in their large city. Now normally the member benefits provide tickets and passes multiple times per year that present opportunities for locals to visit the museums "for free" because they are already paying members. (There are also free days for everyone.) But my parents are part of that sizable minority of members who never go to these places on their own. So every time I visited home, there would be an appreciable pile of passes and vouchers on the mantelpiece, and Mom and Dad would encourage me to take a friend, or my sister, and have an outing with the free passes, so we could at least use them up. So this is the case in my family. Now I can see where people who love visiting museums become members in their own towns, get free passes, and visit there often, right in their backyard. I can also see people becoming members because they love entertaining visitors and they can show those visitors a good time if they have a supply of free passes on-hand and ready for when someone new comes around.