>1. there are plenty of obese people in rural areas where they have all the walkable space they might desire No, they don't. Have you ever spent any significa

>1. there are plenty of obese people in rural areas where they have all the walkable space they might desire No, they don't. Have you ever spent any significant time in rural American places? There's no place to walk at all, because: 1. everything is too far away for walking to actually be useful for going places, 2. there's no sidewalks even if you don't mind walking 2 hours to the nearest Walmart, and 3. there's no wild places to walk either, contrary to popular belief, because all the land is privately owned and "trespassing" is not allowed (and can get you shot). Rural Americans can only walk places if: 1. they have a lot of land around their house, which granted is more affordable than in more urban places, or 2. they get in their vehicle and drive to a state or national park someplace and use the hiking trails there. It's so weird how many people think rural America is some bucolic place that resembles the Shire of the hobbits, when in fact it's a car-bound hellscape even worse than the worst American car-centric city. It's not like the UK, where you have an absolute right to roam across rural lands.