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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by iso1210 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:33PM (#30951126)
> Depends a lot on where you live and work. My experience was the exact opposite in Chicago. Heck, for some of my jobs I could outrun car commuters on my bike pretty trivially.

I got a taxi from Gare du Nord to a hotel on Champs Eleyse this evening -- took about 40 minutes to go 2 miles. That's ridiculous, but it's apparently a thing.

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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by ericd on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:15AM (#30953281)
That might be partly because Paris has heavily deprioritized cars, in favor of bikes (which seem to be booming in popularity as a result).
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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by ashtonkem on Thursday April 07, 2022 @09:26PM (#30952307)
A reasonably fit person can walk 2 miles in 30-40 minutes, so your cab was literally going walking speed.
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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by KptMarchewa on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:15AM (#30957010)
Not with heavy baggage.
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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by ashtonkem on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:47AM (#30957554)
Duh? I wasn't literally suggesting that GP walk from a hotel; baggage was obviously implied by the context. I'm just commenting on how taking a taxi on that route is less time and speed efficient than walking.

Obviously a bus would be a better choice, or a train depending on geography. They handle baggage just fine.

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