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• SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes, that’s what Europeans don’t understand about America. When we go to, say, Wal Mart, there’s only one. We have to go to Bentonville, AR. Not so bad for us here in the Midwest, but the residents of Alaska have it particularly tough. And since you go to Wal Mart to pick up milk, we can’t go by public transport. It has to be by car, or better yet, drive the Canyonero. (No train schedule can predict when the milk runs out!)

  The country is so big, and we have so much empty land, there’s just simply no room to build more stores near where people live. What kind of madness would that be?!

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    (No train schedule can predict when the milk runs out!)

    How about YOU predicting when milk runs out? I’m not asking you to do five-year plan, but it’s easy to know when milk will run our.

    The country is so big, and we have so much empty land

    Russia is bigger and has more empty land. Despite Putin’s idiocy with invading other country.

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    • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ha, I thought that the blatant contradiction about having too much space and therefore not enough space would make the joke obvious, but I guess not.

      Also, a Canyonero isn’t a real vehicle. It was a joke from The Simpsons.

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      • mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The joke was obvious, and you even doubled down by suggesting people intentionally go to Bentonville. I appreciated it

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Also, a Canyonero isn’t a real vehicle

        I just ignored that part because

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• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nope but the nearest mall to me is 2 hours drive. No one is building rails out into the smaller counties. The USA is massive. I’ve lived in Europe, its a lot smaller, and people still have cars. Not saying this couldn’t work for cities but people forget how spread out we are here in the usa.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nope but the nearest mall to me is 2 hours drive.

    Have you considered that this is because most of space in USA is allocated only for cars? Or that if this space wasn’t allocated to cars, then you wouldn’t need to traverse such disyance in first place?

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Look I’m not arguing that we shouldn’t be putting in trains as much as possible but it’s not a solution to cars. Hell in Europe people still drive a good bit.

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      • justgohomealready@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The solution is not living in the middle of anywhere, two hours away from civilization. If you lived next to the mall, you could go there by foot.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe I’m biased living in a “European” part of the US, but it can translate very well to our country. It’s not that the place is large, but so many places are suburban or trying to keep that rural feel, yet you want massive warehouse stores for everyday shopping. But every town can have a center where common areas are common. Every town can have a center with whatever shops and restaurants. Every town of every size can have some things in a higher density area that’s walkable. In our mythology, we call it “Main Street, USA” and look back at it as a long gone ideal, but it’s still a useful concept, still around in some places, and can be re-created

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