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Obvious choice (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

You forget that people live also outside of cities. If you live in a town away from any city you need a car.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    No I didn't. First of all, forgetting and disregarding aren't the same thing.

    Second, living in a small town isn't an excuse. Small towns are inherently walkable (due to being, ya know, small) unless you somehow manage to design them spectacularly wrong. And contrary to American belief, it is actually possible to provide rail transit to them: the US itself used to do it 100 years ago, and Japan still does.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    In Spain, where I live, there are town (<1500 people) that have the closest supermarket art 25 km of they are lucky. And no bus or 2 in the day with the schedule for the kids.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    First of all, how close is the closest non-super market? I mean, I could say "omg I've got to drive 20 miles to get to the nearest Costco" but that doesn't give me an excuse to pretend the Lidl in walking distance doesn't exist.

    Second, even if there really isn't any way to get groceries without driving 25 km, just because some particular town is designed stupidly and lacks necessary services locally now, doesn't mean it has to be that way in the future. It's somebody's fuck-up that needs to be fixed, not an immutable natural law inherent to how small towns work.

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