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2 days agoI live in suburban Kansas City and these are the distances to the things you mentioned -
- Convenience store - 1.2 miles (1.9km)
- Chain supermarket - 2.8 miles (4.5km)
- Bus stop - 1.2 miles (1.9km)
- Park - .4 miles (650m)
- Big supermarket - 5.5 miles (8.8km)
- Library - 1.9 miles (3km)
- Train station - 7.4 miles (11km) (trains are not really a viable transport option here)
- Airport - 29.1 miles (46.8km)
The closest publicly accessible business to me is a fast food restaurant about a mile away.
Basically if I need anything, it’s a 30 minute walk one way to get there. It just isn’t really viable as a regular thing to spend an hour walking to get to/from a convenience store, or 2 hours for a grocery store. Instead, I spend 10-20 minutes in my car for those errands, and save the extra time for walking my dog (since he couldn’t go into any of the places mentioned above either, so his walks would have to be in addition anyway.)
I agree with this, though part of it is that I am still grandfathered into the $7.99/mo original Google Music launch promo price. It is worth it to me not to see ads to continue paying for it. The current monthly premium at $14/mo for new users is insanity.