Which way of lifestyle would you choose? where daily essentials are easy to reach on foot, or a non walkable area where transportation is usually needed to get around.
A Walkable City, Town, Or Countryside Or Non Walkable?
As a kid it wasn't uncommon to walk 4-5 miles each way with friends like 3 or 4 times a week going around town even though a convince store was about a half mile away, and there were a handful of grocery stores, department stores, restaurants, and other shops within a mile. If I was by myself I might ride my bike, but often not everyone had a bike so we walked or towed each other on handlebars. That was a city of like 200,000 people in a metro of roughly 7 million people. Even out in the middle of agricultural land (farms) now I can get to several corner stores, ethnic grocery stores, restaurants, and other shops within a mile and a half, and most normal chain stuff within like 8 miles. It's really not much difference convenience wise. Now there are even electric bikes all over the place and I'm an adult and I have a car. The entire city dweller myth of convenience is really nonsense. It's something city people lie to themselves about to make excuses on why they need to live in the city. In the city you just have a lot more density and a lot more small businesses that you never really use. They are there if you were to need them, but generally you don't and all those unnecessary shops in the middle of the city just put space between you and the things you actually need day to day. The major difference between city and rural areas is that in the cities there are street lights and sidewalks everywhere, where as in the middle of farm land there are grassy swales on the sides of roads and darkness at night. No street lights. So cities are more walk-able in terms of having paved foot paths and night lights, but you do have more crazy people committing crime and crazy drivers that can make it more hazardous to travel by foot in the city. When I was in the city, if I left my bike in my front yard for 5 minutes someone would steal it. In the "country" I can leave my belongs in my front yard for weeks and no one will touch them. Even if I leave my garage door wide open with expensive equipment in site of anyone that passes by, nothing goes missing.
Supposedly the average urban commuter travels 10 miles each way to work so that's about equivalent to going shopping from a rural area. If you plan well, you can go to work and then do your errands after work in an urban area and bring back your groceries or whatever to your homestead. One thing that is for certain is that traffic is horrible in urban areas and speed limits are much lower. You often have to wait in long lines at traffic lights and you don't always make the light. For example I can drive to the end of my street and get on a 55 mpg road that most people drive 60-80 mph on and you generally never see cops. There are no traffic lights for 8 miles until I get to conveniences. There are people on the roads, but not many. When I was in the city, if I drove to the end of my street I was on a 30 mph road with traffic calming circles and cops were all over the place so if you went more than 35 mph you'd probably get stopped and get a ticket. So in rural areas you can cover a lot more distance in less time. You might get slightly more wear and tear on your vehicle and use slightly more gas, but you really aren't all that far from anything.
If I was a single man or college kid in my early 20s living in a safe walkable city id be using an E bike or scooter to get around. But countryside is better, grow your own food, outdoor bbq, no bad neighbours, no HOA to deal with. Good neighbours are worth their weight in gold, like I lived in a place where every day the neighbour let his rottweiler out is crap on my lawn.
Like the place I live in now, has places you can get to by walking, places you can get to by car or bus, places you can get to by train, and it has different cultural grocery stores, traditional North American style grocery stores, as well as ethnic and white dominant bible studies and churches within walking or busing distance.
It's perfect for a low key, and quiet social life, as well as sampling anything you want for lunch.
I’ve lived in both the countryside and in the city so I would choose countryside or walkable city as I have done both. I just like to put on some music, walk and just reflect on my life. I did a bike tour in Germany years ago so that was my experience with the non walkable area but it really wasn’t for me even though I enjoyed my time doing that at the time.
Just give me someplace I can walk, because I hate cars, and I haven't owned one for over twenty years. Motor vehicles may even worse than smartphones, in terms of shortening people's lives.
I walk a LOT , and I can't imagine anyone saying non walkable , I'm 10k steps minimum per day as part of my life , I'm not lazy , I prefer to do far more on an active day , I always want walkable.
Walkable and peaceful, which is where I am now. It is such a relief to be able to walk down the street without having to worry about being attacked by a crackhead.
I would choose Paris, one of the most walkable cities in the world. I live in Seattle, and my neighborhood is very walkable -- grocery, library, post office, lots of restaurants a few minutes away.
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