Here in my part of the US we do build with shops outside of neighborhoods. The problem is that these shops are rarely prime real estate so the stores that move in are rarely something you want to walk to

For example, outside my neighborhood now is

A convenience store, A dry cleaners, a sports bar, a military surplus store, an office for a business that builds floating docks, a tow truck company, some kind of repair shop for hydraulics, a Wendy’s, a burger king, and a bait-and-tackle store

Except not all of that is on my side of the street. If you left my neighborhood and went north you would run into the stores. Then there is a road, some more stores, and then another neighborhood. But that road between the two lines of stores is a major road. 8 lanes where I am. (8 lanes all-together. 4 east, 4 west)

So yeah, I could walk to the sports bar because it is close, but also I have to cross 8 lanes of traffic. And the other neighborhood could walk to the convenience store, but they also have to cross 8 lanes of traffic

On paper it’s ideal. In reality not so much

Sometimes you luck out and you’ll get a mom-and-pop sandwich shop or a small grocery store or something, but most of the time it’s dance studios or a place to buy used vacuum cleaners. Just random, lower-rent shit.

If you keep walking you can find more useful things. There’s a Starbucks and a doughnut shop close by. If I wanted to ride my bike there is a grocery store… but that just means crossing more main roads. Not 8 lanes, but still. Not 2 lanes with 25mph traffic either. It’s like 45mph 4-lane roads

And of course this is more difficult if you have kids. I’m not sure I’d feel safe riding my bike to the store with my young child. So if we need to go to the store, or even the playground, we drive. It’s not that it’s so far we can’t walk, it’s that the walk is sketchy

If you want to walk and shop, we have places built specifically for that. You drive there, park, get out, and then the next like 4 or 8 blocks or whatever is designed just to be for walking and shopping.

It’s not an easily fixable problem through. Unless you’re going to tear down a bunch of houses this is just kind of how it is

Then again, with everything costing $1000, I’m not sure who’s walking to buy anything. I do well for myself but I’m still not going to walk to a sports bar regularly and buy a $9 hamburger and spend $7 on drinks. So really, I don’t even care anymore.

If you did it for free, what boss is replacing you?

Why can’t you just keep doing it?

GWAR concerts are always rad. The music is second to the actual show

But you will get covered in fake blood (it’s pretty much just water) so wear a white shirt and if it’s cold outside, bring a change for the car

Seen them during the first election

They killed Hillary, Trump, and Bernie

Trump was naked and wearing a cartoon sack of money for clothes, Hillary was sick and kept vomiting blood, and Bernie was old, died first, and came back as a mutated super monster that tried to eat everyone and had to be killed

The story, if you can call it that, was that Gwar were running for president of the universe and the only way to win was to kill your competition

Any article that tells me how to feel… I have to question the legitimacy of that article

OH NO!

Anyway, who cares?

If this is the shit you care about you need to spend less time on your phone

I’m an American and I also have an unfavorable view of the USA

Don’t get me wrong though, I don’t hate America. I’m not unhappy in America. My day-to-day life in America is not bad at all

It’s just, there are a lot of idiots here and it’s exhausting being surrounded by them

Like I turn on my TV and I see a commercial for “Patriot Glasses”. They are, “Tactical Sunglasses” and the advertisement claims that Navy Seals and shit use them so if you’re a real Patriot you need them too. And the commercial is a guy driving his truck through the mud and shit… just idiot shit for idiot people and damn, it sucks there’s enough idiots like that out there that somebody is marketing products like this to them

The World Cup is on Fox and there are commercials featuring that UFC guy talking about how America is bad ass because we’re loud and say what we want to say because we’re not pansies… it’s absurd. Makes me wonder if people in England turn on the TV and see a guy dressed like a Red Coat talking about how bad ass it is to be Posh before he tries to sell you the Queens Tea Cups or whatever

This comic is better than any comic you ever see in r/comics

Pizza-whatever always makes the front page with some shit worse than Garfield

Frame 1: “I’m a strong independant woman!”

Frame 2: She throws up

Frame 3: She wipes her mouth

Frame 4: Sorry, I though about Trump

Reddit: OMG THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN EVER OMG HAHAHAHAHAH SO FUNNY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I’m so proud to American