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Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  if entire cities were designed around these the way they are with cars, everyone would be fine with it

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe you shouldn’t have to live that far away from everything?

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• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also make sure you get groceries as well, I’m sure a weeks worth you’ll be good to carry back.

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  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would you need to buy a weeks worth of groceries? Just buy for 1 or 2 days. Make additional grocery trips as needed.

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes because everyone loves to go grocery shopping every other day, and with a bike, who cares if you gotta do another 5 miles out of the way.

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      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Where do you live that you are 5 miles from a grocery store? If I ride my bike 5 miles in any direction I will pass half a dozen grocery stores.

        I had a quick look at Google Maps and there are at least 50 supermarkets within a 5 mile radius of my home. That radius covers the whole of the city I live in, which has 38 supermarkets, plus a sizable portion of the neighboring city, which has 24, plus a few smaller villages which all have at least one.

        I went grocery shopping twice today. Once this morning to pick up some breakfast stuff and another visit in the evening to get some things for dinner. It’s a 3 minute bike ride. A grocery trip takes less than 15 minutes including the time spent in the store. I don’t think it’s possible to live farther than that from a supermarket in this city, I lived 1 minute farther away I would be closer to another supermarket.

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• BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who the fuck takes a job that far from home?

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  • Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe you do what you can to survive, fuckwit. Have you thought of that?

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    • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If your skills are so specialized that the only company that hires someone like you, you can probably afford to relocate.

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re forgetting that the US is a shithole country. The only way to afford rent is to live far outside the city.

        I’m a welding press operator and I live 20ish miles from my factory. I don’t have the money to move.

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