What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?
A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.
Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I’m not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.
How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?
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A gas station?! How often do you walk to a gas station?
All the time. They’re open 24hrs and sell milk, cat food, cat litter, batteries, condoms, and dishsoap. For a second shift worker, something that sells small necessities in the middle of the night is a huge boon.
Plus I have deal with my neighbor to use his snowblower if I gas it up, and you can’t take cannisters of liquid fuel on the bus.
So a convenience store. I can see that. Basically a southern bodega 😀.
Now the funny thing about this statement is I’ve been a southerner all my life and never even been to NYC. 🤣
My neighborhood has corner stores / bodegas as well, but they don’t stay open all night.
Did you mean “gas it up” ?
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Usually gas stations have a convenience store that is easier to get in and out of compared grocery store and sometimes have good food as well. especially in the Midwest gas stations have really good food and are the best fast food joints in town. Also buccees
It’ll take you 15 minutes to cross a buccees parking lot >!kidding!<
One of the few sad things about a transition to a car free(er) environment: no more bucees. They pay well, their bathrooms are great, and their food, though expensive, is great.
Also, you reminded me about the local gas station where I once worked nearby. They had better food, though it was all fried, than any place within a 20 minute drive.
Convenience/grocery stores still would exist. Buccees is probably better suited to becoming local grocery stores than most gas stations and superstores in terms of size. They just wouldn’t be a regional attraction and wouldn’t require crossing a sea of concrete to get to the store.
Presumably they could transition, the profit margin on gas isn’t that high. Maybe they could get bus routes to stop there, since people will still want to go that direction.
I had never heard of buccees. It’s massive!
If the ‘gas station’ choice were replaced by ‘convenience store’ would a midwesterner have seen them as the same in this poll?
As someone in Texas, convenience store and gas station are interchangable words in my mind. A dollar store would be what I’d call a convenience store that doesn’t sell gas.
Yeah I think most people say gas station because they don’t know the concept of a bodega
Man when I was in college we had something like this in the bottom of my dorm. Super convenient.
We just got a buccees near me. It was like a big deal.
Also a good place to buy drugs
No joke we just moved to a new house last summer and we were checking out local grocery stores and saw a drug deal in a food lion parking lot. So also grocery stores.