• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I tried saying “bippity bopping boo” just now, but it didn’t move my house 20 miles closer to the grocery store.

      • MadhuGururajan
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        3 days ago

        man, it’s so wild hearing that the nearest grocery store is 20 miles away. You guys have created unnecessary problems for yourself. It’s so shocking how rough you guys have it and how non-chalant you are about something which is a no-brainer for the rest of the world.

        never seen more chumpier chumps than Americans.

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          2 days ago

          Believe it or not, not everyone lives in dense urban areas or the suburbs.

          And the scale of the US isn’t something most Europeans understand. How long does it take you drive across your country? In the US, a drive from Southern California to Maine is over 48 hours and around 5000 kilometers.

          The Texas Triangle megalopolis (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) is bigger than lots of European countries.

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            15 hours ago

            oh this tired argument again!

            You don’t drive across the country daily do you? How long does it take to drive across the country? that’s irrelevant.

            the whole of zoning and design of US is bad.

            You can’t bring this up when the argument is how far is your local grocery store is to your house. Unless you drive cross country for your groceries!

            “Not everyone lives in dense urban areas or suburbs”

            Your argument is “that’s how it has always been and we have to solve around it” when the solution is to not to have it that way.

            the US is hopelessly into spread out development. There’s no solving your way out of having to drive 10 minutes to get groceries without substantial changes to mindset and zoning policies. It’s so absurd!

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              53 minutes ago

              It’s not zoning.

              It’s when places developed. The super spread-out metroplexes of the US are in areas that developed after the invention of the automobile.

              Europe isn’t more enlightened when it comes to development. They’re just older. Cities tend to develop around most people living within an hour of where they work. When the US urbanized, that was a much larger area due to technological advancements. Rolling that back is almost impossible.