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[–] Cold_Brew_Enema -1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Cool let me just bike 30 miles to my job and back everyday sounds good

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You'd be surprised how much easier that is with a battery and electric motor.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who the fuck takes a job that far from home?

[–] Cold_Brew_Enema 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] SupraMario -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] SupraMario 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SupraMario 1 points 1 day ago

A large portion of people in the USA do not live 5 miles from a grocery store. DGs and family dollars don't count as a grocery store either, even though a lot of them carry food (these damn things skew distances for a lot of people).

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-detail?chartId=76598

On top of that, 5 miles gets you there...5 more miles gets you home. Average cyclist does like 10-12 mph, that's around 25-30mins to get 5miles. So just going to the store and back is 1h cycling.

Good workout, not practical.