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This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers (pbs.twimg.com)
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This is apparently in Columbus, Ohio -- a pretty major city by any stretch of the imagination.

And yet there are people who rail (geddit?) against 15-minute cities and efficient public transit that ensures no one ever gets stuck like this.

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[–] destructdisc@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Mumbai, India. Six grocery stores, five pharmacies, two clinics, and multiple cafes and restaurants within a 3-minute bike ride from where I live. A full-fledged mall, a hospital, a 7-Eleven convenience store, and an upcoming metro station 5 minutes away, a major discount department store, a shopping complex, and the train station 10min away (by bike).

That's on top of the fact that there are multiple Instacart-style app-based delivery services that'll bring groceries to you, so you don't even have to get out of the house if you don't want to. (I steer clear of those because they grossly underpay their low-level employees, but they're there if you really need something in a pinch)

I live a solid 25-30 km outside the city center. Not once have I felt the need for a car in my eight years living here, even for longer distances.