Yesterday I headed out from the apartment for errands. I walked a total of about 8 blocks. I completed:

• A haircut
• Shopping for some house items
• Post office for mailing a letter and stamps
• Stopped to listen to some live music in a market hall
• Talked with a local community group about tech stuff
• Visited a library
• Hit up the bank ATM
• Snagged a couple bags of groceries

Total time: about 115 minutes

I LOVE living in a walkable neighborhood. Fuck car-only life. If you want it, fine, but don’t demand that we all live in your apocalyptic transportation hellscape.

I could have done all thos trips in 20 minutes with my car, if we ignore the time in traffic, the time fueling it, the time waiting for oil changes, and the time spent earning the money to pay for the car, the gas, and the insurance.

You also left out finding parking and then walking through spectacularly scenic parking lots to and from each destination’s front door. With bigger malls/box stores you’d walk further than I did going around the block just having to cross the parking lot.