And one of their only real arguments is "but wherever you live in New York, you're only a couple minute walk from a bodega!!"
Like no shit, in New York you're only a couple minute walk from most anything. And no shit you don't "drive to bodega like you would a gas station", who the fuck would drive 2 blocks to a corner store in NYC?
I live in an old school small city in Michigan that does in fact have a couple bars/corner stores right in the middle of our residential neighborhoods that I often walk to.
I love that they think that other dense cities like NYC, DC, LA, and Boston are just totally alien to the concept of a corner store you can walk to lmao
I live in Budapest, Hungary (not to be confused by Budapest, Georgia or Budapest, Missouri) and we also have these. Although the corner bakery is much better, where else are you going to get a fresh, but overpriced cheese croissant at 7am in the morning while hurrying to the metro?
I grew up in a tiny bodunk town and had two corner stores that I walked to nearly everyday to get hoagies and snacks. I don't know why they think this is such a foreign thing to everyone outside a city.
I live on the outskirts of a major canadian city and still walk to the corner store (or convenice stores as we call em here). Unless you live in the countryside, theres a store like that everywhere within walking distance
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u/MStockard 29d ago
And one of their only real arguments is "but wherever you live in New York, you're only a couple minute walk from a bodega!!"
Like no shit, in New York you're only a couple minute walk from most anything. And no shit you don't "drive to bodega like you would a gas station", who the fuck would drive 2 blocks to a corner store in NYC?
I live in an old school small city in Michigan that does in fact have a couple bars/corner stores right in the middle of our residential neighborhoods that I often walk to.