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EpicEng·

Nope, I live in the world that most other people do (in the US).

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UK calling in. I walk home at nights, beating cars over the mile-and-a-half (c.2km).

Ours is a small UK city, larger cities the traffic is slower still.

US population: 325 million World population: 7.7 billion

Somehow, I don't think that's were "most" of the people live.

I outwalked a traffic jam this morning as I often do (admittedly in a narrow time frame)

Well it would take me an hour to ride my bike to work, but I get here in ~11 minutes in my car. True for most people in the US.

And as I wrote that last bit, I realized that I should not have said "in the _world_".

I have the opposite during warm weather. I have a 12-15 minute bike commute that takes 45 minutes by car and an hour by bus. I'm sure that's not the case if you don't have decent bike infrastructure though.

Yes but that is an issue with your choices, which makes sense we all want convenience, but you could make those choices from a bicycle perspective. I did, atm I get about 10 minutes extra every day because actualy do something with my commute. This is true for every place I've lived in (Europe, NA/SA and Asia), you just have to make the choice.

And I out-walked (well, tied) the Uber driver who cut me off at a crosswalk, to dropping off his fare across the street from my apartment a few blocks further up the hill, the other night. Contextually constrained anecdata like ours simply aren't relevant to the general point here.

For the vast majority of people in the parts of the world where using pod coffee machines is a meaningful thing to talk about, your commute is a driving or transit kind of thing, not walking or biking.

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