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Originally Posted by Cd
I live in Austin, Texas.
Roads here are designed to FORCE you to drive.
You cannot walk more than a mile without having to cross a busy intersection.
NO ! More like 1/4 mile.
I have extreme anxiety / panic, as well as fear of driving.
So that makes it easy to live without driving.
You just live in a 300 yard area and never are able to escape.
This is a video on Houston urban planning.
Austin is the same - if not worse because of the huge mass of people moving here.
https://youtu.be/uxykI30fS54
3:43 in the video is the part where he shows how crazy it was for him to walk 800 meters to a store. |
Sounds like Texas. We were there once for a visit south of Houston. We thought it would be nice to just take a walk around the neighborhood. But car after car would stop and ask if we were alright if we needed a ride. It was nice that so many strangers were so nice and helpful. But at the same time, it seemed like the idea of people walking instead of driving was completely foreign to them.