Re:Live near your friends
by ryandrake on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:30PM
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A 5 minute walk is only about 500 meters. I don't understand how that's even possible outside of a dense city. I've lived in places where you can't even get to the nearest public road in 500m, let alone to another human being. In a lot of the USA, living within a 5 minute walk of your friends means they are "1 or at most 2 next door neighbors down the street".
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Re:Live near your friends
by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @07:11PM
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> I've lived in places where you can't even get to the nearest public road in 500m
500m is over 0.3 miles. That's certainly possible in rural locations, but its very much not typical of places people live outside of “dense cities”.
> In a lot of the USA, living within a 5 minute walk of your friends means they are "1 or at most 2 next door neighbors down the street".
This is true in a lot of the USA by geographical area, but not a common experience (exactly because this fact means virtually no one lives there.)
Suburbs are typically around 2,000 people per square mile, or about 150 people within a 500m radius.