[Closed] why don't people walk any more?

Being a dog I walk most places

I was thinking this, then I went to America. No one walks, and I mean no one.

how do you get to the toilet? very messy if people don't walk.

It's unbelievably dull.

Unless you have a dog.

I walk all the time. Often walk 10 or 12 miles in a day

The fat and lazy ones (about 70% in my street) all drive to the local shop which is a 3 minute walk. Its probably only marginally quicker by the time youve turned round and parked at the shop. But they are also the ones that dont recycle, dont walk their dogs, and dont seem to really care about much apart from themselves.

Everyone has shagged ankles. 😉

I love walking. At least an hour a day with the doggies, more when possible. I'm just heading out now and will be about two hours. I suppose the location helps - I think I'm going to go here tonight, which is no hardship.

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in residential areas by me you don't see many people outside the house unless they are in their car. The only people you see on the streets are a couple of regular dog walkers, some joggers and some kids when its time to go to/leave school. The concept of a street as a social space where people interact seems to be a bygone thing where I am.

Everyone has shagged ankles.

shit excuse that. tell em to MTFU

I dont walk because i have a bike duh

I walked 5miles home at 3am Sunday morning through Manchester city centre to next to the motorway. I could have got a taxi but it was a lovely night and I thought why not? I often do this, tricking people into walking allover London, Barcelona, Paris etc etc. Walkings ace. You see more.

It's unbelievably dull.

it's what ipods were invented for.

I average about 6 miles a day into town and back if I take the direct route. I usually take the long route along the beach or over a hill to avoid the constant roar of traffic. Easily 10 miles if the weather is nice.

I was thinking this, then I went to America. No one walks, and I mean no one.

This is true. We got stopped by the police in California. We tried to walk from one end of a street to a shop at the other and the cops wanted to know what we were doing just walking along on the grass. We pointed at the van and at the shop we were going to and asked us why the hell we'd left the van all the way back there or something. He looked at us like we were turds.

I was thinking this, then I went to America. No one walks, and I mean no one

I think varies from Place to Place. Lots of people on foot In boulder Colorado. Apparently walking is big in new york. But Los Angeles is a bit more "Walle"

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Being a dog I walk most places

Give us a selfie magnetodog. 😀

it's what ipods were invented for.

Why would anyone walk anywhere?*

*unless you have a dog

It's dull? You have to be happy with your own company first dude.

It's too dangerous when there's so many bloody cyclists riding on the pavement 🙂

I suppose the location helps

So you live in Glencoe or very near?
Not that I'm even slightly jealous!

Near enough 🙂

It's a great way to get around. I love walking round a new city, good way to get the measure of a place. I'm sure some tourists walk further using the underground in London than just walking straight to their destination. Still plenty of people walking around here, too. I usually walk to the shops and I'm far from the only one. It is a bit of eco bohemian area though.

We found loads in Barcelona and Paris. We didn't touch the metro once or taxi's. Yes our feet were tired at the end of literally hours walking but you get the vibrancy, spot things you only tend to find a few trips/or local knowledge later.

Abit like new area trail hunting on the bike 8)

I walk. A lot. maybe not for hours, and miles, but more often walk in town than take the bike TBH.

And I get to sort out stuff in my head, walk by the river, appreciate sun, rain, sleet, wind. Sometimes wish I had a dog though as it seems more acceptable to go for a walk with a dog than just on your todd!

Apparently walking is big in new york

In NYC it's like combat walking. Don't get caught on the street at rush hour. Keep up or be trampled.

And I get to sort out stuff in my head

I liked it when I could walk home from work. It took an hour but only 20 minutes more than sitting in rush hour traffic. Plus I'd get home chilled out and if I drove I'd arrive home still ready to kick a hole in the wall.

In LA a few years back I decided to walk from my hotel at then end of restaurant row to the fancy shops about 3 miles away. I was happily walking down the street when a police car stopped next to me and asked what I was doing.

I said I was going to the shops and the laughed at my accent and said there were no shops nearby, would I like a ride back to my hotel (about 1/2 a mile)

I said I was happy to carry on walking as it was only a couple of miles so they drove off giggling to themselves.

I carried on walking and about ten minutes later I glanced back and the police car was about 400m behind me just trickling along at walking pace.

I walked a bit more and looked again and they were maintaining pace with me. I waved them over and asked what they were doing. The explained that they had a bet on how long I would walk before calling a cab, when I said I didn't have a phone they nearly pissed themselves.

I don't walk so much now because despite having more than the average number of legs, I have less than the average number of ankles.

I had to walk to work this morning, a sodding builder/property developer has stuck some barriers along a 250mtr stretch of road, the only viable road on the island. There were queues both side of the lights for at least 500mtrs and therefore much easier to walk in.
I should walk more often, I ride in, but walking very rarely. It's not unknown to take the car either.. And I'm going to tell you just how far it is into work.. 2k.. Yup,,that's it.

I'm such a lazy sod during the week 🙄

I don't walk much at all in urban areas, walking more than a few hundred metres is near guaranteed to make me need to wee and I no longer have the capacity to hold it for more than a minute or two. I like walking in rural areas but my legs fatigue pretty quickly and feel terrible, all in biking is just better for me :p

My work colleagues today remarked upon my walking to work as odd. This is from people who live 1 mile away and drive.

Walking is great, I don't own a car so I'm never tempted to drive somewhere I could walk, if I have the time I would walk somewhere even if it was an urban journey and not some bucolic amble through countryside.
I think people are generall lazy. Was staying on the Lizard peninsula in the summer and we did some short 7-12 mile walks along the coastal paths and hardly saw anybody, the car parks were rammed though and the cliffs 500ft either side were busy but beyond that the wilderness and no wifi seems to make people nervous

If I've got time, then I will walk places but I find it quite boring.
Even when out in the countryside my first thought is that it'd be more fun on a bike.

I've always been like that. I used to run home from school because it was less boring than walking or run back from the pub, rather than stagger.

Where I live there are quite a lot of people who seem to walk frequently. Leading the charge is the dog walkers, but if I'm peering out of the kitchen window while washing up I see plenty of people just out for a walk.

i try to walk as much as possible home from work, to the gym, etc. I am always baffled as to why people go to the gym to walk on the treadmill!

I walk all over the Toon almost everyday but me colleagues don't coz they cannot keep up ...

Cliff thinks it's so funny.....why we don't walk anymore

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8-10 miles a day here

thats a great story WCA 😀

Sod off nobody walks anymore?!

My feet are aching from from walking around at work all day.

I also walk anything from 159-200 miles over 2-3 weeks every summer e.g. Thames Path or Cotswolds or another country's famed trail.

Broke my foot and sprained my ankle slipping on a wet floor, rested it for 2 weeks then walked 180 miles.

Arch supports are a life saver too.

Stop being a lazy fatso.

I walk 6 miles every day, I love walking to work it's a great way to start the day (I run home which is a great way to end the day)

I go to the pool 2 or 3 times a week dropping off and or picking up my son. There are two car parks, one small overcrowded one at the side of the building and another much bigger one about 100 yards away. The small one is supposed to be for the disabled and people with kids but a lot of people that park there are neither of these IE young fit and single. The guys at the centre have put up large planters with chains connecting them to stop people parking where they shouldn't but the guilty have broken or removed the chains so they can park there. The trouble people who are going to swim or use the gym etc go to to avoid walking a short distance amazes me. The local Co-op is just as bad, people parking in the disabled bays or on the double yellows when there's a space ten yards away. I think this and the love for Adele and Michael Bay movies suggests humanity is doomed.

I walk up the hill behind my house a few times a week, and also walk to the local shops, doctors surgery, post office, etc.
I was in the US on business in a place that isn't designed for pedestrians! They catch a cab to go across the 4-lane highway. I decided to go to the small shopping mall next to my hotel. There was no path so I had to walk across the grass and climb over a fence! Once in the mall, I was stopped by someone who asked me if I was doing "power walking". 😀

I was in the US on business in a place that isn't designed for pedestrians!

I was in Houston, pretty much trapped in my hotel unless I called a taxi. Absolutely no way to leave the place on foot - all roads, no pavements.

At least we're as bad as the states. Apparently the average American walks all of 1.4 miles in the average week (not including in the house - getting off the sofa to go to the fridge for yet more food). 1.4 miles - that's an outstandly small amount and that figure is 10 years old (can't see it will of improved in the last decade). Saying that, last time I went to the states in many urban areas it simply wasn't possible to walk - out of town shopping and a general lack of pavements - a country that is truly ruled by the car

My new site is probably half a mile from my cabin to the other side. I'm a bit fed up of walking at the moment and for the next 32 weeks 🙄

It's unbelievably dull.

Unless you have a dog.

And then it's still dull but you get to clutch a warm bag of dogdoo.