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The last time I was in the US - a couple of decades ago, I admit - people were aghast that we walked to a store just a few hundred meters away. 3 people stoppe
by OtomotO 1mo ago
The last time I was in the US - a couple of decades ago, I admit - people were aghast that we walked to a store just a few hundred meters away.
3 people stopped and asked whether they can drive us somewhere... I mean, super friendly people, but... it's just a few hundred meters, come on!
You were the wild west, once!
- YeGoblynQueenne 1mo agoWell, everybody rode their horse everywhere in the Wild West.
- megagpt1 1mo agoThis happened to me in Germany. To be fair, I was walking 10km on a rural road with two suitcases and no sidewalk.
- rainsford 1mo agoTo be fair, there are an embarrassingly large number of places in the US where safely walking to a store a few hundred meters away would be very difficult at best.
- chrismorgan 1mo agoMy mother tells much the same from when we Australians were in Denver for five months in 1996 about walking a kilometre to school. Also mild astonishment at ideas like baking cakes not from a packet mix. Mind you, there weren’t many who would walk to school like that in Australia, and the number has continued to dwindle. But there were some.