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To Americans: How far apart is everything in the US? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dch82@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I've heard the legends of having to drive to literally everywhere (e.g. drive thru banks), but I have no clue how far apart things are.

I live in suburban London where you can get to a big supermarket in 10 minutes of walking, a train station in 20 minutes and convenience stores are everywhere. You can get anywhere with bus and train in a few hours.

Can someone help a clueless British lemmyposter know how far things are in the US?

EDIT

Here are my walking distances:

To the nearest convenience store: 250m
To the nearest chain supermarket: 350m
To the bus stop: 310m
To the nearest park: 400m
To the nearest big supermarket: 1.3km
To the nearest library: 1.2km
To the nearest train station: 1km

Straight-line distance to Big Ben: 16km

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I live in Atlanta, in an intown neighborhood that was once considered a "streetcar suburb" although the streetcars have been gone for decades. For a neighborhood with single-family houses, this is about as good as it gets in terms of urbanism and walkability. (Basically, to do much better you'd have to live in a high-rise in Downtown or Midtown because we don't really have medium-density neighborhoods.)

Point is, my area is not representative of Metro Atlanta as a whole. Probably 90%+ of the metro area population would report distances at least double, if not an order of magnitude larger.

Walking distances:

To the nearest gas station ("convenience store"): 0.7 miles (1.1 km)
To the nearest chain supermarket: 1.2 miles (1.9 km)
To the bus stop: 0.2 miles (320 m)
To the nearest park: 0.9 miles (1.4 km)
To the nearest big supermarket: 1.5 miles (2.4 km)
To the nearest library: 0.7 miles (1.1 km)
To the nearest MARTA station ("train station"): 1.9 miles (3 km) [Amtrak would be considerably further]

Straight-line distance to Capitol Building: about 3 miles (5 km).