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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Yesterday I headed out from the apartment for errands. I walked a total of about 8 blocks. I completed:

  • A haircut
  • Shopping for some house items
  • Post office for mailing a letter and stamps
  • Stopped to listen to some live music in a market hall
  • Talked with a local community group about tech stuff
  • Visited a library
  • Hit up the bank ATM
  • Snagged a couple bags of groceries

Total time: about 115 minutes

I LOVE living in a walkable neighborhood. Fuck car-only life. If you want it, fine, but don't demand that we all live in your apocalyptic transportation hellscape.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

I could have done all thos trips in 40 minutes with my car, if we ignore the time in traffic, the time fueling it, the time waiting for oil changes, and the time spent earning the money to pay for the car, the gas, and the insurance.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You also left out finding parking and then walking through spectacularly scenic parking lots to and from each destination's front door. With bigger malls/box stores you'd walk further than I did going around the block just having to cross the parking lot.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Parking? All of those stops were drive thrus

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Jokes on you: the city I moved away from in the US added a parking garage to the historic register. If you weren't so focused on waiting in a line of cars for the drive thru, you could be enjoying 10 stories of historically crumbling concrete!

On my errands I was subjected to walking past atone churches from the pre 1800's, going through a park, and going through a market hall from 1900. It was horrible. I didn't even get to wait at any traffic lights for a Micro Vacation during my travels. Sad. Just sad.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In Europe, 18th Century churches are new.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, though I'm also in Berlin so many were fully or partially rebuilt after the various wars. They're old and new now. Still gorgeous. I love me a tall stone building!

Oh. Yeah, Berlin is definitely an exception...

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Drive-thru haircuts sounds pretty weird imo.

[–] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Link to where you get your haircut via drive through?

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