Apparently it's important that they can walk to a petrol station though.

Probably don’t want to live near drunks, or the piss and vomit that exists after a weekend.

If you ever drive through rural America, you'll usually at least see one or two crosses, often on telephone poles, on rural roads. People, often teenagers, die pretty regularly in rural America because of drunk driving.

Some people like it. Some people are just numb to it. It's just insane to expect people not to when bars are the only social space in a lot of these towns, and those bars are not accessible by anything but car. There is no such thing as a taxi for most of the US (space wise, not population wise).

That was the one that stood out to me, too (especially the dichotomy between "bars" and "restaurants"). It maybe explains a lot if NIMBYs are actually just moralizing puritans being dishonest about their motives.

I'd wager not a single example of a 15-minute city exists or has ever existed throughout all history without a bar in range.

The website has a British version that doesn't include bar/pub as a choice at all. Does include liquor store, though. Thought that was odd

This stuck out to me too. This is one of my top items for a 15 min. city, not because I visit bars frequently, but because when I do visit, or when my neighbors visit, I'd like it to be a car-free trip.

Where are they going to have AA meetings? that's the bigger concern. the only thing on the list that functions as a community center is the elementary school and park.

Maybe they want to drink at home