Originally Posted by
macteacher
Well...I think it has a lot to do with the fact that everything is condensed. They don't need to travel 10 miles just to get to a supermarket, school, hardware store, etc.
That may be true, but that's a personal choice that most of us make ie choosing to live in places where the only way to get around is by car. But I know Mississauga reasonably well - used to live in Toronto and still have family living there - and I'm guessing most people there as in the rest of both our countries would still choose to drive for much smaller distances as pointed out by uke
According to the
Sierra Club, almost half of all car trips in the US are <3 miles, while more than a quarter of them are less than a mile.