walking in the snow is a major treat in December. A bit like going to beach in summer. Getting to do it once per year is a bigger joy than every day.
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I really think people who don't like snow should just move south. I have no issue with snow personally but im not a outdoors person like i used to be.
How is being in a city a reason not to walk? Isn't it like the exact opposite of that?
Some cities are absolutely not built to be walkable. That said, it doesn't mean it's impossible to walk in a circle around some block somewhere
I'm guessing the implication is that there are scary people (minorities) or that it's too dangerous (might have to cross a couple of streets or pick a path that's easier to cross a larger street)
Some people who get hooked on the internet absolutely refuse to believe they have any agency over their own lives, and refuse to put any effort in to non-instant rewards or uncomfortable pursuits. It's pretty sad.
In fact, going out for a run is one of the very few times I feel I have near-complete agency over my life.
Earphones in, banging tunes on, and it's half an hour (or an hour if I can be arsed) of me versus the music. The stopwatch stops when it stops, I'm not bothered about seconds or the odd minute. The traffic ebbs and flows, gaps open up to cross roads every now and then. People go about their own busuness, and I go about mine.
On my own, it's one of the few half hours where I can think about my place in the world - what I can do; who I can do it for; why I'm doing it; and think a few things over to make sure I'm doing the right thing for the right people for the right reasons.
I'll not bullshit any of you with nonsense like feeling "invigorated" or "revitalised" or "fresh" because I look and feel like a sack of potatoes after a run, but I definitely feel better about myself when I get to bed that day.
This is how I felt when I lived somewhere I could use my bike as my main form of transportation. Absolutely liberating
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It's safer to walk in a city.
I live in a cold weather city and walk year round.
If it's a city with no sidewalks and all truck-filled mutli-lane stroads, then it's dangerous. But still better than being sedentary.
That doesn't sound like any of the cities I've ever been to. Where are you describing?
Describes a lot of North American cities. Mind you, there are walkable parts of cities, mostly built before the car era, but a majority of urban areas built during the gasoline era are hostile to pedestrians.
Can you give examples? I live in the US and have been to a lot of cities here. I've never had any issues with highways running through or anything.
You've never seen a highway chop up a city? Or multi-lane arterial roads with poor sidewalks or just shoulders? How?
Not really, I've walked a ton of cities. I've seen that much more often in more rural areas. What city are you thinking of?
Yeah people dont tink outaide the box, or have low motivation.
I have mentioned bike riding to work, or using a motorcycle. And the usual response is "yeah but rain, and motorcycle season is only 6 months."
On a Dual-purpose for 10 years , and then super sport bike for a few years I rode in our Canadian winters.
Our city ploughed and salted. You use caution going over a black ice patch. No sudden brake or acceleration. You screw sheet metal hex head screws into a bottom of your work boots, so that you have traction if your feet have to come down on a slippery part of the road during a stop. Freezing rain on the road, means 1st gear and feet down like skiis.
They sell carbide studded tires for bicycles. Rain wear. Balaclavas. Your breath freezes to your eyelashes instantly at -20°C. One danger, At -20°C the rubber reed in your airZ'ounds horn stops working, because the rubber diaphram is too rigid.
But I made it to work and back for years, when some others called in stranded because their cars couldn't get out of the driveway their cars.
I only had 1 day out of those years where it snowed 4 inches and then started melting and icing underneath. It was too slippery to even walk in, so that day I phoned for a car ride.
People just want to have excuses. At the same time, driving a bike in these conditions in not going to work for everyone. I would not expect more than 2/3 of my colleagues to be able to do that. I am sorry but that 1/3 is just to dumb. Not that driving a car makes it better, but they would just not make it to work then.
Who walks in the suburbs?
We (as people from several European countries) just went to a business trip to a conference in a small town in NH. The amount of Americans looking at us as if we were crazy was quite serious. Because we were walking to get groceries, walking here, walking there, and they all were driving past us (because this is how you move around, duh!)
But I can confirm, the place wasn't best suited for doing that, as the roads were winding with no direct trails to cut corners, sidewalks appeared and disappeared, and there was a "no trespassing" sign on every tiniest patch of forest.
This is why I live in a city. I wish our small towns were walkable because at this point in my life I'd prefer one, but not an American style one.
It truly is an uncivilized backwater over there, ain't it?
It's civilized in terms of "where to live" and "where to buy stuff", but it feels like every place is detached from another, so you need to teleport to other locations. There is life behind the loading screens!
European in America.
My boss was agog that I walked to a client meeting this week.
It's 0.7 miles (1.2km) in a straight line (actually its on a road perpendicular, so theres a single turn and a pedestrian crossing) on a flat, paved path (sidewalk) in the middle of a city, where every block there is a protected pedestrian crossing, and the weather was clear and 64°F (18°C).
I walk in an apartment complex. Its not a terribly interesting walk but its better for my head than not taking one
I really lucked out that the random apartment that I applied for before moving to a city is directly next to a nature trail. My dog loves it, and it turns our boring 1/2mi walk around the complex into a more interesting 2mi walk.
Oh thats lovely!
been there, tried that. So many people have cameras that scream at you as you walk by, and sonic dog repellent that it's unpleasant/painful to walk the suburbs. Add to that the lack of anywhere to walk to, and it really sucks.
What the fuck is going on that people have sonic dog repellant? Are there just feral dogs everywhere that the government is doing nothing about?
It's been less than a week since I had to deal with a pack of dogs in the street, so... yes?
Me, also in the woods, or a city :)