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We can get great coffee in walking distance, grocery, drugstore, restaurants but no very local bar. Obviously don't want to go in a car to drink and occasionally (today) it would just be so nice to have a local place. Not for, like, a night of partying and not for a fancy dinner. Just one or two drinks and walk home.

Do you have a local bar and do you ever go there?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, I am not from the us and need an explanation. Do you mean a mile (1,609km) is considered too far to walk? Or do you mean you need a car to even get out of the suburbs because of limited walking paths?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's possible to walk a mile drunk, but a person would consider driving intoxicated to avoid it, given the choice. So it's not "walkable from a bar," practically speaking. You'd be halfway home and think "this shit sucks, I should've taken the car."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't live in the suburbs, honestly that's why this bugs me. I live in a medium size city in what id describe as "uptown" but not fancy? Mixed use zoning, on my way to work (2.5km) if I'm walking I pass 2 wee strip malls with odds and ends shops, a cafe with fantastic coffee, breakfast and lunch only, many doctors offices, a Colombian restaurant, a jewler, a Starbucks, pot dispensary, 2 fast food places, a hospital, there just oddly is not a bar or restaurant with bar anywhere close by.

But yes there are suburbs here I call House Farms. Just houses for miles, ringed by roads too big and fast to cross safely on foot. So many of those out in every direction from the city here.