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[Luc 4,776]

4 hours ago, Economy said:

Its called taking an uber, thats what i always take. And if u have friends to split it with its really cheap. And before ubers existed thats what taxis were for  

 

And From what i saw in the US its kind of the same as Canada. Small grocery stores are rare. They have them in Toronto and my mom and I used to walk all the tine to get a few things and get things done... and if things were further away the public transit was so efficient. Buses, street cars and subway would get you anywhere in no time  

 

But thats only in the 3 largest cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver)... as soon as we moved to the suburbs thats it.  Walking is out if the question

 

We like the US dont have little grocery stores spread out. We have a few large ones every so many large km in plazas usually. Sometimes theres 3 or 4 large ones in the same area because its zoned that way.

 

I can choose from Fortinos, Metro, Freshco and Walmart which are 10 minutes drive away all clumped together in plazas  

 

Actually 7 minutes away in another direction we have this large grocery store called Nofrills which my brother worked in. That grocery store is on its own. But its still a large grocery store with no other small ones near by...

 

unless for food u count Mcdonalds, Pizza-Pizza, KFC, A&W, Taco Bell Or Burguer King which are spread out every where. Those are always walking distance away. But u can find them in plazas too  

Just looked it up and Uber is about 2€ per km here, no thanks  the streets after 3 AM or so are empty and completely safe anyways, so cycling is not that dangerous even when the infrastructure is missing.

 

Those grocery stores sound pretty similar to here  there's a big one (Albert Heijn) for more middle class people about 1 km away (10 minutes cycle, 5 minutes car), a Lidl for poorer people about 1.5 km away and a Dirk and Aldi about 2 km away. All of them are quite big but just not as immense as American supermarkets. In my memory they were almost as big as IKEA  

[Economy 52,844]

5 minutes ago, Luc said:

Just looked it up and Uber is about 2€ per km here, no thanks  the streets after 3 AM or so are empty and completely safe anyways, so cycling is not that dangerous even when the infrastructure is missing.

 

Those grocery stores sound pretty similar to here  there's a big one (Albert Heijn) for more middle class people about 1 km away (10 minutes cycle, 5 minutes car), a Lidl for poorer people about 1.5 km away and a Dirk and Aldi about 2 km away. All of them are quite big but just not as immense as American supermarkets. In my memory they were almost as big as IKEA  

I used to go to Lidl when i lived in Portugal  

 

That lidl was quite small in comparison to our grocery stores and all others i remembered

 

But Portugal had more large "super stores" where as in Canada we dont have as many of those. We kinda seperate each store in malls or plazas

 

2 euros per km? Screw that. Here its little more than $1 per km. But most ppl give a tip which adds another 10% to 15%