Where I live suburbs (both those with apartment blocks and those with detached houses) usually have stores within reasonable distance
When the store is 100 mile/160 kilometer round trip, you either figure out a substitute or do without. And if you don’t know what else to use, your favorite search engine is only seconds away from helping you with your problem. It ain’t rocket surgery.
God I wish. I live in an American city, so it’s too dangerous to walk along the 4 lane stroad to get to the grocery store a block away
my condolences:(
When I look at those neat American suburb grids and imagine to be a shop owner, I would love to put my store directly into the grid. Is it just not allowed to have a shop in those neighborhoods? Isn’t that anti-capitalist lol?
Bessie the chicken huh
I can buy free range eggs at the farm gate, a five minute drive from my house. It’s pretty handy actually.
if i’m feeling restless i’ll just bike 20 minutes to the local egg farm and buy the eggs directly from their little unmanned shop, for a hilariously low price.
i have a lot of complaints about sweden but god damn stuff like this is nice
Same here. Living in the boonies in Germany. The shop is a freezer sitting outside under their carport and a tin can for the money. And it works.
it’s such a good business model, provided you can trust people not to steal
effectively 0 overhead and people can go there whenever they want, everyone wins except big companies, which means everyone else wins EVEN MORE
here in sweden we have an app called Swish which makes it trivially easy for anyone with a smartphone to send money to anyone else, so these places will just have a sign with their QR code that you scan and it automatically inputs their account number and the cost of the item. I want to live in a world where this is the standard way to sell things.
Unironically agreed. Suburbs suck and apparently they’re also bad for the environment.
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Oh god.
almost: car-centric suburbs suck, other kinds are generally perfectly fine.
Like there are many suburbs throughout the world built around public transport and they’re great, my fave is one to the northeast of gothenburg that is just a bunch of high-density housing and a tramline slapped into the hilly forest. Same population as my town and everyone living there has like a 10 minute walk to the forest at worst, and most people have a 5 minute walk to the tram.
For the vast majority of my suburban life, whenever I needed eggs mid-recipe I just walked across the street to either the local grocery store or local convenience store to get eggs.
Not your neighbor?
Why eggs? Are you russian?
‘Bessie’ is a preposterous name for a chicken.
Just eat something else?
the president still doesnt make the gas prices
that’s the joke i think
I live in the suburbs and am within walking distance of 3 places that sell eggs. Which is an anomaly, because yes this is one of many problems with suburban sprawl.
Imagine being able to walk or cycle to a store in a few minutes while also not being in some dense urban hellscape 🇳🇱🇪🇺. Hopefully the US will learn to build better cities someday.
while also not being in some dense urban hellscape 🇳🇱🇪🇺
Fun fact: Although Amsterdam (~5,000/km2) fails to match the population density of New York City (~11,000/km2), similarly-human-scale Paris manages to almost double it (~20,000/km2) despite not having skyscrapers. Because of things like progressive setbacks and the need to build parking decks to comply with minimum parking requirements, NYC-style skyscrapers really don’t buy you as much extra living space as you might think, compared to mid-rise apartment buildings that can use the entire city block curb-to-curb.
The most frustrating thing is being in a place with dense outwardly building urban development. Watching more and more copy/pasted strip malls go up with plans for “Subway. Smoke shop. Nails. Maybe gas station.” (Yes, every time)
Aside from copy-paste labyrinthine housing developments.
You just wish you could shout loudly enough “You’re doing it all wrong and there’s still a chance to make this better!”
But it keeps on going.
