What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?
A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.
Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I’m not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.
How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?
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They are probably carbarians whose only conception of a grocery store is a supermarket surrounded by a moat of parking. I wouldn’t want one of those next to me either
Even then, 15 minutes is quite a radius. I wouldn’t want to be a 3-minute walk away, but a 15 minute walk is like ~8 blocks.
Granted, that probably necessitates other homes being a lot closer than 8 blocks, so I suppose this just becomes a micro-scale NIMBY-ism. So I suppose you’re probably right.
That said, there are lots of places where you have massive grocery stores at the ground level or underground in high-density urban environments, so you can get massive scale with high walkability, if you’re willing to move past single-family homes (which we must… I say despite wanting a single-family home for my family.)
Not wanting a parking lot moat next to them is one thing, but not even wanting one within a mile and a half just flat-out doesn’t make sense.
Some people don’t want anyone near them. Not even a small mom-and-pop grocery store.
But what if your only experience with grocery/retail/bar s these huge loud noxious monstrosities. We’ve super-sized almost everything, and many people probably have no idea it can be different