@...dieAntagonista: What happened to walking? The US happened, that’s what. Here in the US, everything is spread out to ridiculous extremes. It’s not uncommon to be twenty or thirty miles from anything… well beyond walking distance. Where I live now (Southwestern US), it takes me almost five minutes IN A CAR to get to my mail box! Not post office box, the damn MAIL BOX. It’s a ten mile round trip to the closest grocery store, and that’s the closest I’ve EVER lived to a grocery store in my life.

@...dieAntagonista: Yes, there are plenty of examples of lazy people. Won’t argue about that. 😀

As for the mail box, I live in one of those places where the Post Office is too lazy to bring the mail all the way to your house, so they put up clusters of boxes somewhere in the vicinity of all the houses in that neighborhood. For me, that’s a few miles away. I’m joking about the lazy part… I’m sure it’s more likely that they under-staff the carriers so that there’s just too much to do for one person. The town is growing fast (don’t know why since there’s little here beyond natural gas), and the communities are spread way the hell out.