Anonymous wrote:First of all, taking long walks (1+ hours) on pavement is awful on your knees & feet, even if you don’t feel the impact immediately.

Second, if not owning a car correlated with being fitter, those who do not own cars & whom are completely reliant on public transportation (including public buses) for their every need would be the fittest among us. Obviously, that is not the case.

What the what??

Is this a troll or sarcastic comment??

Anonymous wrote:It’s not even the suburbs, people won’t even walk in a shopping center. I’ve seen people circle 5 or 6 times trying to get a parking space ip front. I’ve parked and inside shopping by the time they actually get one. So lazy and most are overweight and need to walk a little (or a lot!).

I've seen people stalk others in the parking lot for my gym.

There's plenty of parking 2-3 rows away. But even going to the gym, people are lazy AF.

Anonymous wrote:First of all, taking long walks (1+ hours) on pavement is awful on your knees & feet, even if you don’t feel the impact immediately.

Second, if not owning a car correlated with being fitter, those who do not own cars & whom are completely reliant on public transportation (including public buses) for their every need would be the fittest among us. Obviously, that is not the case.

Walking for an hour plus is awful on your knees and feet? The “impact” of WALKING? Is this some kind of troll post? How horrendously out of shape are you? Let me guess, if somebody does any amount of running their knees will explode by the time they are 60.

Unreal. Absent some health condition not of your own making, if you can’t walk 10 miles and you are under the age 65, you are doing life wrong. Most Americans can’t walk FIVE miles to save their life.

It’s not exclusively an American thing. I know plenty of sedentary Brits and continental Europeans. And even those that do walk a lot that just eat and drink poorly.

It’s like idiocracy sometimes. Where is the brawndo?

Brits like to take the mickey out of how we hate to walk everywhere until they move to America and realize how spread out things are. They often forget that their entire country is the size of Florida. People in NYC walk exactly the same amount as people in London. People in the burbs walk exactly the same amount as people in East Bumble UK. I have lived in all four places. I am also married to a Brit who used to love making fun of me for this. Ten years of suburban living later, you best believe he’s driving that car from one end of the shopping center to the other.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on whether you’re in a city/suburb/rural area. In some burbs in the US, it’s not possible to walk 30 min in one direction without hitting a 4-lane busy road that has no sidewalks or crosswalks.

I know and find that pretty sad. I would feel trapped. Never understood the appeal of suburbs.

You must be very well-off. Cities are for the rich, the young & the poor.

It’s very difficult to afford a good QOL as a middle class family in a city.

Anonymous wrote:I randomly came across this and there are quite a few hilarious opinions on Americans and walking and how Europeans are often made feel nuts when wanting to walk somewhere even 5 minutes in this country. Walking is healthy people. Walk as much as you can!

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/p6ua6x/so_this_guy_reckons_a_30_min_walk_is_nuts_it_got/

That's hilarious and so true. I live in DC and visiting family always think we're crazy when we say things like, "Let's go, it's only about a 30-minute walk." They then ask if we can metro instead, "Well, sure, Dupont's about a 10- to 15-minute walk from our place and then we'll still have ~ a 10-minute walk from our stop." They would honestly rather drive their cars and deal w/circling to park for an hour. We usually wind up just grabbing a cab...

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on whether you’re in a city/suburb/rural area. In some burbs in the US, it’s not possible to walk 30 min in one direction without hitting a 4-lane busy road that has no sidewalks or crosswalks.

I know and find that pretty sad. I would feel trapped. Never understood the appeal of suburbs.

I live in Ashburn and walk about 12k steps a day at least. I just got back from my walk tog er coffee, 45min round trip. I could walk from my house all the way into DC or west and hit the foothills of the blue ridge if I wanted to and never leave a trail or sidewalk. Many of the paths go under major roads so no need to cross them. There are an insane amount of blacktop trails which are much better on the body than concrete sidewalks. I actually love living out here because I’m a biker and love being connected to the WOD and C&O. 2xs a week I have to be in my Reston office and commute on my bike. There are so many bike commuters it’s really great to see.

I love walking and rarely drive but it takes a lot of effort to plan out where you can walk (I don’t feel comfortable crossing highways etc although it looks like some brave redditors have done it).

I don’t live on the east coast where things are close together and you can reasonably walk from one side of the city to another. Unfortunately, I don’t see it as necessarily a suburbs vs city issue here. Even lots of American cities aren’t built around being walkable.

First of all, taking long walks (1+ hours) on pavement is awful on your knees & feet, even if you don’t feel the impact immediately.

Second, if not owning a car correlated with being fitter, those who do not own cars & whom are completely reliant on public transportation (including public buses) for their every need would be the fittest among us. Obviously, that is not the case.

Anonymous wrote:It’s not even the suburbs, people won’t even walk in a shopping center. I’ve seen people circle 5 or 6 times trying to get a parking space ip front. I’ve parked and inside shopping by the time they actually get one. So lazy and most are overweight and need to walk a little (or a lot!).

I don’t own a car, walk most everywhere, and am fat. My sister and her husband have a car and drive everywhere, and are skinny. Poof, there goes your theory…

It’s not even the suburbs, people won’t even walk in a shopping center. I’ve seen people circle 5 or 6 times trying to get a parking space ip front. I’ve parked and inside shopping by the time they actually get one. So lazy and most are overweight and need to walk a little (or a lot!).

When I lived in suburban Florida I drove to the shopping center next door to my development. A friend came to visit from Boston and one day told me he’d walked there while I was at work and I thought he was nuts. Now I routinely walk anywhere less than a mile and a half from home, unless it’s raining or I’m carrying heavy stuff.

Anonymous wrote:Depends on whether you’re in a city/suburb/rural area. In some burbs in the US, it’s not possible to walk 30 min in one direction without hitting a 4-lane busy road that has no sidewalks or crosswalks.

I know and find that pretty sad. I would feel trapped. Never understood the appeal of suburbs.

Depends on whether you’re in a city/suburb/rural area. In some burbs in the US, it’s not possible to walk 30 min in one direction without hitting a 4-lane busy road that has no sidewalks or crosswalks.

I randomly came across this and there are quite a few hilarious opinions on Americans and walking and how Europeans are often made feel nuts when wanting to walk somewhere even 5 minutes in this country. Walking is healthy people. Walk as much as you can!

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/p6ua6x/so_this_guy_reckons_a_30_min_walk_is_nuts_it_got/