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Definitely depends on that situation. If walking to that restaurant .43 miles away required me to play real life Frogger across a busy interstate, I'll drive. If it's down the street in an urban area with sidewalks, I would walk.
As others stated though, I don't have a hard limit, depends on safety, weather, etc. |
Originally Posted by maskedmesothorium
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Can you please teach me how to not sweat :confused:
That aside, if it's nice weather and I have comfortable shoes, I'll walk up to about a mile. If the weather is either hot/humid or even a hint of rain, I'll drive across the street. |
Originally Posted by cbn42
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I was staying at a hotel with a colleague last week and the front desk recommended a restaurant for dinner. Per Yahoo Maps, it was 0.43 miles away.
I grabbed my wallet and started to head out on foot, but my colleague reached for his car keys. I told him it we might as well walk because it would be only 10 minutes, and he looked at me like I was crazy. So this got me thinking, what is your threshold for walk vs. drive? Mine is around 3/4 of a mile. Maybe 1 mile if I'm in a pedestrian-friendly downtown area, or if I'm feeling in the mood for some exercise. If I don't have a car and I'm relying on transit, then perhaps a bit more. A 1/2 mile drive in an urban environment could take longer than walking, depending on traffic and the parking situation. Almost never worth it, in my book. |
Originally Posted by dchristiva
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In a more "rural" environment, I'm probably not walking much more than across the street or parking lot.
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Rome, Singapore if it's not hot, London, Edinburgh, just about any urban tourist setting, I walk and walk and walk. In Memphis, if it's nice and not dark, I'll walk to restaurants that are about a 30 minute walk from my house. I've walked to my doctor's which is about 35 minutes away. As everyone else has noted, if I can't get there without crossing interstates or highways without cross walks, then I won't.
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I like to walk after a meal, and I've probably had a couple of glasses of wine anyway.
I hate getting straight into a vehicle after a big meal. 20 minutes is probably my radius without taking public transport or cab. |
Originally Posted by KoKoBuddy
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Good call. You might run into some "rural" people and you know what they're like....scary stuff. I've heard rumors some of them eat meat and gluten too. The horror.
You completely missed my point. |
I'd say my max is about 1 mile, but it honestly mostly depends on what I'm wearing--suit or casual clothes. I think a good walk can be fantastic...I think we can all agree that everybody, especially Americans, could stand to walk more than they do now!
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Originally Posted by maskedmesothorium
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Can you please teach me how to not sweat :confused:
Is it as simple as walking slower? During 'winter' in Singapore when overcast is 50% of the time walking is actually a pleasure for me. |
Originally Posted by invisible
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Slower, yet steady and secondly - avoid sun if possible. First couple of month it would be challenging, than the body will adjust. Key is that you have to move here - and live long enough to adjust.
During 'winter' in Singapore when overcast is 50% of the time walking is actually a pleasure for me. |
Originally Posted by piper28
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Anything more than the half mile and I'm more likely not to walk it, largely because once I've decided I want dinner, I don't necessarily want to wait the extra time it'll take to add on the walking time.
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I try to walk as much as possible, and often to meetings if less than a half hour or so With google maps, I sometimes even take the virtual walk from point to point (or, for example, from the metro stop to the meeting location) so I don't get lost. I will walk all day in a major city if I am there on a non-working day.
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Pretty darn far, even when there's not really a place to walk. Take Jakarta for example- sidewalks are rare, and often if they do exist they are pockmarked squares of concrete covering ditches, are jutting out from the ground or are slippery bricks. Taxis are affordable, sure, but traffic is common and u-turns are fecund. Pollution has wings, legs and fins, if you catch my drift. Nevertheless, I walk, to discover new places, to find shortcuts for old ones and to sample a choleric fruit shake.
Then there are other places that I choose to conquer by foot. If food is the goal, that's an even bigger incentive. |
Looks like we gotta lotta walkers here.
I have some colleagues who will automatically take a car everywhere and it gets frustrating when I have to travel with them. One of them was visiting our UK office. As is usual with visitors, I booked a hotel less than 5 min walk from our office. Him: "So" he says "What time are you picking me up in the morning?" Me: "I'm taking the bus. The office is just there =>" Him "The bus?" Me: "Yeah. Stops outside my house and parking's terrible round here" Him: "Oh. Right (pause) So what time are you coming by my hotel in the morning?" |
Somehow this thread reminds me of the time I had a visitor from Denmark and one night I drove us to a restaurant about 5 miles away. He berated me for being a lazy American who was unwilling to walk, and insisted that the trip was less than 2 km, even though it took 15 minutes to drive (city streets at rush hour) and I told him that I always walked to and from my office, which was about 2 km from my home and which we'd passed about 1/3 of the way to the restaurant. So I offered to draw him a map and let him walk home after dinner, which he declined to do!
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