Yeah, heard this over and over again. Seems great til you get sick of eating hotdogs and chicken nuggets for every meal. Also, going to those places usually involves walking across a huge parking lot and then more walking to get the food in the park. You’re probably talking about an hour ordeal, which may be fine if you’re retired, but not something regular people can swing.
It’s quite important for elderly people to exercise regularly. An hour walk every day would be great for that. I assume they’re also interacting with people or just enjoying watching people enjoy themselves too, or just people watching, so mental stimulation is also good.
I need you to understand that walking an hour in a walkable city and walking in an hour in an American suburb is like comparing a literal walk in the park with walking on a tight rope for an hour.
I’ve lived in both. It’s a shit show in the vast majority of the US. Sidewalks deliberately end to prevent ‘the poors’ from entering adjacent neighborhoods. There is zero shade, trees, seats, or any form of refuge as a deterrent from homeless people. Once you start walking somewhere, there are no shops, restaurants, or water, or bathrooms until you reach your destination, where you must spend money. Public transit takes a minimum of 3x longer than cars, and that’s if you live in a big city. If you miss your bus, you have to wait an hour for the next one. A shop that’s only 200 meters across the highway can end up becoming a 5km walk due to lack of crossings. Each crossing alone can take you 5-10 minutes to cross due to the sheer width of the underpass, number of segments in it, and the infrequency of stopped traffic.
Also, people own guns in the US, pedestrian density is low, homeless people who might be desperate and mentally ill people are not cared for, and paths are not always fully lit. That means you better be sure you can walk back by sundown or else risk robbery, assault, and death.
That’s only if there is a walkable path the to amusement park.
Most amusement parks are either located further out from the city, surrounded by a massive parking lot, or is enclosed by highways and non-walkable car infrastructure.
Take Six Flags Magic Mountain for example. If you look at the satellite view, you’ll see that the closest residential home to it is a 46 minute walk despite being only 1000ft (300m) away from it. It’s completely unshaded with literally nothing in between the house and the park. If you get a heatstroke, you’re shit out of luck.
No, just walking an hour to get food when my lunch break is an hour. It maybe okay or desirable if you’re retired, but I’ve seen this amusement park “hack” sold as a way for regular people to get food and I’m saying it’s too much of a hassle for most. Also, the food is unhealthy.
Yeah, heard this over and over again. Seems great til you get sick of eating hotdogs and chicken nuggets for every meal. Also, going to those places usually involves walking across a huge parking lot and then more walking to get the food in the park. You’re probably talking about an hour ordeal, which may be fine if you’re retired, but not something regular people can swing.
It’s quite important for elderly people to exercise regularly. An hour walk every day would be great for that. I assume they’re also interacting with people or just enjoying watching people enjoy themselves too, or just people watching, so mental stimulation is also good.
You’re bothered about walking checks notes an hour??
I need you to understand that walking an hour in a walkable city and walking in an hour in an American suburb is like comparing a literal walk in the park with walking on a tight rope for an hour.
I’ve lived in both. It’s a shit show in the vast majority of the US. Sidewalks deliberately end to prevent ‘the poors’ from entering adjacent neighborhoods. There is zero shade, trees, seats, or any form of refuge as a deterrent from homeless people. Once you start walking somewhere, there are no shops, restaurants, or water, or bathrooms until you reach your destination, where you must spend money. Public transit takes a minimum of 3x longer than cars, and that’s if you live in a big city. If you miss your bus, you have to wait an hour for the next one. A shop that’s only 200 meters across the highway can end up becoming a 5km walk due to lack of crossings. Each crossing alone can take you 5-10 minutes to cross due to the sheer width of the underpass, number of segments in it, and the infrequency of stopped traffic.
Also, people own guns in the US, pedestrian density is low, homeless people who might be desperate and mentally ill people are not cared for, and paths are not always fully lit. That means you better be sure you can walk back by sundown or else risk robbery, assault, and death.
If you’re retired and have a yearly pass, an amusement park is not the worst place to go for a daily walk. Aside from peak days.
That’s only if there is a walkable path the to amusement park.
Most amusement parks are either located further out from the city, surrounded by a massive parking lot, or is enclosed by highways and non-walkable car infrastructure.
Take Six Flags Magic Mountain for example. If you look at the satellite view, you’ll see that the closest residential home to it is a 46 minute walk despite being only 1000ft (300m) away from it. It’s completely unshaded with literally nothing in between the house and the park. If you get a heatstroke, you’re shit out of luck.
You’re really selling the American Dream there, late. Yee-fucking-haw !
No, just walking an hour to get food when my lunch break is an hour. It maybe okay or desirable if you’re retired, but I’ve seen this amusement park “hack” sold as a way for regular people to get food and I’m saying it’s too much of a hassle for most. Also, the food is unhealthy.
It’s America, all of the food is unhealthy
Some people I have met eat that for every meal already.
I don’t know how, but there are families I have met that only ever eat McDonalds for every meal.
Even my wife when I met her subsisted on KD, corn and twizzlers.
I eat a ton of hot dogs. Reasonably 100 a year. Cheap as fuck.
If you aren’t aware, they cause cancer. Maybe you don’t care, which is fine, but thought I’d let you know.
The cancer can fight the microplastics
Almost everthing can cause cancer lmao.
All the meat, overcooked things, alchool and more
dude what doesn’t cause cancer nowadays