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

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 hours 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).