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I know that was the joke but no I literally think they were afraid of the 15-minute walk. I read that only 25% of adult Americans walk for more than 10 minutes continuously in a week
My ex spouse and I used to walk places together when we were young. An hour wasn't all that uncommon. The instant they got a car "no I don't want to walk". Yeah we can walk 20min to our destination but why do that when they could spend 5min getting the car ready, 10min driving, 15min being pissed while trying to find parking, then 5min walking because that's the closest parking space to the destination. Blew my mind, years of trying to talk them into walking with me again, never worked
god finding street parking is so awful
Almost like giving every single person a 50 sqft hunk of metal (plus 25 sqft on either end) doesn't work in cities.
it sure doesn't
Fun fact, the minimum parking spot size in my city is 250 sqft, literally a tiny house
I like walking to places. I get to see people and animals
I saw that they thought people were going to be fined/arrested for leaving their 15 minute zones. This may have been more a thing in Australia though where we had distance-based travel restrictions and curfews during COVID lockdowns
i'd bike if we had infrastructure (and maintained it during the winter) but my legs would fall off if i walked that long.
getting groceries is pushing it even with leaning on the cart.