I live in Jersey (New). As a background, I’m at the edge of civilization, I like to joke. If you go west of me, there’s farms, what we call mountains, hiking, all that kinda stuff. To the east of me, it gets more and more urban until you get to NYC.
Here are my walking distances:
- To the nearest convenience store: half a mile
- To the nearest chain supermarket: 1 mile
- To the bus stop: half a mile
- To the nearest park: quarter mile
- To the nearest big supermarket: 1 mile (same as above)
- To the nearest library: I am 1 mile from two different libraries, pretty much smack in the middle.
- To the nearest train station: 1 mile
Adding:
- To the nearest mall: 1 mile
- To the nearest gym: quarter mile
- To the nearest hospital: 1.1 miles
- To the nearest ice cream parlor: .9 miles
- To the nearest record store: .9 miles
- To the nearest arcade: .9 miles
Straight-line distance to Big Ben: Just shy of 3500 miles. Straight-line distance to the Statue of Liberty: 30 miles
I thought about the numbers too. I would say dozens go as high as like 150, because beyond that you can round up to 200, which is now hundreds, but before that runs down to 100, and nobody wins say The US sent hundred of troops…