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cultureramp · 4332 days ago · link · · parent · post: America is a country that has forgotten how to walk.
It's often a choice, but part of it is structural as well. I grew up in a small town—around 2,000 people—but in terms of land area, it wasn't really all that small. I didn't realize how big it was relative to its citizens' needs until I travelled in Europe a bit. A village there is a hub you can walk across in a matter of minutes, surrounded by the larger estates of farm-holdings. By contrast, it took close to an hour to walk from city limit to city limit across my home town, and that's if you moved at a brisk clip.