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In most of Europe if you are in any kind of town or a village of more than a few hundred people there will at least be a small supermarket within easy walking d
by ninalanyon 2y ago
In most of Europe if you are in any kind of town or a village of more than a few hundred people there will at least be a small supermarket within easy walking distance, say one kilometre. And if you are in any reasonable sized town, say a few tens of thousands or more then there will be multiple supermarkets within that range.
Belgium is one of the most densely populated countries in the world so you won't find many places that are too far from a supermarket to walk to.
- cudgy 2y agoIn the US, small grocery stores are called convenience stores. Almost all small towns have one or more of these within a kilometer of most people in that town. Now you aren’t gonna find fancy organic produce at these stores, but the quality of food in the US is probably not generally as good as what you have in Europe. Anyway, comparing a small country like Belgium (approximately the size of the state of Maryland) to a huge vast country like the United States is not a valid comparison.
- dmonitor 2y ago> Almost all small towns have one or more of these within a kilometer of most people in that town I find this hard to believe based on my lived experience in the southeast US. Where I live, there are stores a moderate walk away (still over a km) that are completely unreachable from where people live because they require crossing 4-6 lanes of traffic with no crosswalk or pedestrian route. > Anyway, comparing a small country like Belgium (approximately the size of the state of Maryland) to a huge vast country like the United States is not a valid comparison. This is a valid point.