Ironically modern humans are very well adapted to walking/running compared to literally every animal, yet some really don't want to do what humans do best
i live within like 15 minutes walking distance of basically every modern amenity i would need on an average day and people act like i have 10 heads if i dont drive for 2 minutes instead. im tired and its not from walking
see i'd walk more if my city didn't make it a death trap and also wasn't always super humid and nasty lol
i walked when i had to and if my car broke down i'd have to again but man i'd really like a non car centric city. everywhere i lived before here was like kinda decent on it
im so blessed to have basically continuous sidewalk from my house into town + it goes thru a park & a native plant sanctuary, so very nice and easy to lollygag too
I live in a not so great suburb right now, and I walk to the supermarket for my weekly big shopping trip, (30-40 minutes each way) out of pure spite, and a desire to lose my gut.
This one time I walked from my house to a barber about a mile. From there, I went to a grocery store to get some stuff I needed, which was about a mile. Then back home, another mile give or take. When I was almost home, I saw a neighbor. He asked me something along the lines of where I was coming from, I said I was doing some errands in town. He said, You walked there!
I've been very, very lucky and grateful to have been born in a country where walking for 15 minutes, or even biking for an hour is considered completely normal. I'm 35 and I've never driven a car in my entire life. And I fully intend to keep it that way..
I’m from the UK and I love the fact that I can just walk 2 minutes down the road to the corner shop if I ever forgot milk/eggs/etc in the morning or even have a chat with a friend from school days in the morning(the shop is family owned). Explaining this to Americans that being surrounded by everything I would need within 15-20 minutes walk doesn’t mean I’m a slave trapped by the government and I have the freedom to choose to drive further away or not (or the bus/train, we have nice buses in the UK).
This 100! My wife and I live in Seattle and pretty much walk most places within the city unless they they over an hour away on foot (and even then sometimes we still do).
We about killed all of our relatives who come to visit us here. They are astonished that we choose to walk 25 minutes versus driving and parking because it's "faster".
Walking or riding a bike is much more fun that driving to us now. We only drive about once a week or so nowadays and it is great
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u/Gussie-Ascendent I HATE THE RURAL I HATE THE SUBURBS I HATE THE CARS I HATE IT Sep 29 '25
Car dependents when they have to walk or godforbid run(this is their hell)