A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummeting
you know how nice it is to be able to walk like 5 minutes to a grocery store? You don’t have to roll over to Costco once a week to buy $300 in groceries that need to be stored in two refrigerators. You just walk over to the store and buy some things for a day or two and if you forget something it’s no big deal, it’s a 5 minute walk!
Anyway I completely and uncritically believe this because getting in your car to do literally anything sucks ass. Just owning a car sucks ass. Yeah there are fun parts of having a car but you can rent a car to do the fun things and it’s probably net cheaper.
Recently moved to a location that has 0 bike lanes, few if any bus routes, everything is made for cars. Nearest store is a 30 minute walk along highways. It is really depressing coming from somewhere we did have a 5 minute walk to a store. The amount of fresh veggies we eat has gone down significantly for frozen ones.
I cannot go back to that. I grew up in the southeast of the US, moved to a real city after spending most my 20’s completely car dependent. I can’t go back
you know how nice it is to be able to walk like 5 minutes to a grocery store? You don’t have to roll over to Costco once a week to buy $300 in groceries that need to be stored in two refrigerators. You just walk over to the store and buy some things for a day or two and if you forget something it’s no big deal, it’s a 5 minute walk!
Anyway I completely and uncritically believe this because getting in your car to do literally anything sucks ass. Just owning a car sucks ass. Yeah there are fun parts of having a car but you can rent a car to do the fun things and it’s probably net cheaper.
Recently moved to a location that has 0 bike lanes, few if any bus routes, everything is made for cars. Nearest store is a 30 minute walk along highways. It is really depressing coming from somewhere we did have a 5 minute walk to a store. The amount of fresh veggies we eat has gone down significantly for frozen ones.
Same. I’m not in a position to move either. Frozen and canned foods are basically 97% of my diet.
I cannot go back to that. I grew up in the southeast of the US, moved to a real city after spending most my 20’s completely car dependent. I can’t go back
i live a 5 min walk from the grocery store but i still go once a week. grocery shopping sucks i dedicate as little time as possible to it.