05-22-2007, 05:24 PM
Quote:Well there must be a difference between there and here. When I was living in the U-district in Seattle, everyone walked all over the place. However, that was largely because shopping needs were within 20-30 minutes of walking time. If you live in that sort of an area, great. Where I live now, I am several miles from the store and walking takes over an hour to get there. I would consider spending that much of the day to walk to a store (and then have to carry the groceries back) to be unreasonable. But if people are driving a few hundred yards down the road, then I suppose there is some room for improvement, there. :)Yeah, folks in this town (in general) are pretty darned lazy. I honestly don't know though which experiences (yours or mine) are more representative of the US as a whole or if we're at different ends of the spectrum and neither one of us is representative. I haven't dug up the research (you know someone has to have done a study on driving habits in the US;)).
Intolerant monkey.