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Bank: 24 miles / 38.6km Grocery store: 4 miles / 6.4 km Work: 50 miles / 70km Parents house: 703 miles / 1131 km
I need to move closer for work, but couldn't afford it do to dumb choices for a bit there.
According to wikipedia, the contiguous 48 states of the US (which occupy the middleish part of North America) are 8,080,464.3 km2, compared to Europe’s 10,180,000 km2, so that should give you an idea. My country is nearly as big as your entire continent, thus things are very spread out. Also our entire modern culture was designed around cars, suburbs and racism, so towns are flat, expansive and nothing is close to anything useful unless you have a car—woe to those without (myself included).
Walking?
5 minutes to cafe for toast and coffee, or the closest corner store/gas station
10-15 minutes walk to the closet big grocery store, or pharmacy, better corner store/gas station, also to roller skating and bowling, a jewelry store, like 15 churches, lawyers, medical supply, doctor offices, a hospital, a bank, fast food and small independent restaurants, lots of stuff.
20-25 to work or to the good grocery
It's certainly not London!!! But if you are inside a mid-sized city there is stuff within easy walking distance, and more within short drive (5 minutes) My husband came from the suburbs and that's a different story - house farms ringed by roads too dangerous to cross, everyone drives everywhere. He used to think of "close" as anything a 15 minute drive or less! Not anymore.
83 miles from Disney World, that's probably the closest international landmark, lol. But maybe 4 miles from the beautiful Tampa Theater, which ought to be an international landmark.
Depends on location, but I don’t think I’m too bad.
- To the nearest convenience store (more than that, really; a drug store and mini grocery store): 400m
- To the nearest chain supermarket: 2km
- To the bus stop: 100m (but the bus doesn’t go many places
- To the nearest park: 600m (a small park, a much larger one 2km away)
- To the nearest *big* supermarket: 6km
- To the nearest library: 2.5km
- To the nearest train station: 2km for local rail, like 25km for rare intercity trains
it takes half an hour to walk (one-way) to the nearest store
about 20 minutes to the grocery store, 5 to the convenience store, about 10 to the bus stop 20 to the park. West coast.
I live in a planned community where everything is supposed to be accessible by walking or biking. There are greenway paths all over the place. I generally drive because I can't carry a weeks worth of food on my bike and most destinations don't have a safe place to lock your bike up. An unattended bike seems to be considered a free bike.
Where my friend lives, in a typical American suburb:
- To the nearest convenience store: 1.5km
- To the nearest chain supermarket: 1.5km
- To the bus stop: >1km
- To the nearest park: 400m
- To the nearest big supermarket: 1.5km (they're all the same thing lol)
- To the nearest library: 1.4km
- To the nearest train station: 1.7km
(These feel like clues to Jet Lag: the Game - Hide and Seek...)
Corner store with basics: 5 min Supermarket: 15 min Restaurants: 5 min Park: 3 min Bus stop: 5 min Library: 15 min Local rail: 20 min Regional/National rail: 40 min
All walking distances. I live in a neighborhood that was designed before cars existed so it’s more like Europe in terms of distances/amenities. Except our transit infrastructure is shit.
250 m to the nearest mini market
400 to the nearest mini mall
1k to the railroad station
400 to the park
150 to the (unreliable) bus stop