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My local walkable grocery store is a Safeway. They sell a 3lb pack of ground turkey for $18.
Walmart, target, smart and final, and Lucky's are all <$12, but I have to drive. And that's one item. I save hundreds a month in groceries because I have a car and can shop around. I can wait for deals, I can buy in bulk.
The idea of a walkable city is nice, but if you restrict competition, prices skyrocket. And yeah, that Safeway is walkable to an apartment, the only grocery store that is, and they know it. It is infuriating to dismiss practicality for an dream.
Walkable cities and car hate are just another generations NYMBY's. Those rich enough and finantialy secure to afford premiums that push others out. Meanwhile this transitional uncertainty greatly harms many of us struggling to make ends meet.
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That's one thing I won't understand about this self-reclusive, anti-atomony movement.
Its basic logic. If I have a walkable radius of 1 mile and a drivable radius of 10, I have the accessability of all grocery stores within that area with a greater selection and purchasing power. These apartments I referenced have exactly one store to shop for groceries. The decision is literally A) Do you purchase an overpriced product for convenience or B) spend an extra hour and public transit to hunt a deal.
I mean sometimes I feel like I'm arguing with children; zero experience in real life. Yes, some can make it work. No, it doesn't work for everyone. Area of accessibility and the competitive choices it allows, are essential to those not as well off.
I'm still undecided about this "fuck cars" movement, but you seem to be kind of saying that walkable cities won't work because presently you can't walk everywhere you want to go. I think the answer to that is simply that you don't live in a walkable city - your city has been designed around the notion that everyone has access to a car.
I guess the inability to drive around smurfing up bargains is a very specific problem that walkable cities aren't intended to address. I think the basic premise is that if there's more people seeking basic vittles within walking distance from their home then competition will appear. They may not be quite as cheap as at the Walmart 10 miles away, but then the opportunities for local vendors will improve your own personal financial circumstances also.
As an aside, when you spend a little time in a large city with public transport and lots of shops, it's easy to see how the fuck cars movement seems like a no-brainer. "If no one had cars then no one would need them!"... but as someone who lives in a regional / rural area it's really hard to see how it could possibly work. I mean perhaps "possible" in some way but it definitely undermines most of the reasons I enjoy living away from a large city.
That's the result of poor planning, and not true everywhere. Places with good planning for non-automotive transport have much smaller shops, smaller streets, and more of everything because of it. The radius you can reach within 15 minutes might be smaller, but the actual number of places you can get to can be much larger.
That doesn't even make sense - you are in a neighborhood that only has one grocery store nearby due to car dependent planning, therefore walkability isn't practical?
I live in a neighborhood that was definitely originally designed for cars and has been gradually getting better and I've already got at least two grocery stores I can easily walk to, plus two convenience stores and a pharmacy that's kind of also a convenience store. Then I've got another three or four that I can easily bike to. And these aren't small grocery stores, they're all like massive supermarkets designed originally around car traffic.
If you spend time in places that have actual walkable neighborhoods, you find lots of much smaller grocery stores and you can easily shop around and compare prices on foot.
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Homer : Uh-huh.
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Homer : Oh, the hammock district!
Hank Scorpio : That's right.