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@blinky465 I’d argue that ‘bike distance’ and ‘walking distance’ is a mental thing and not a physical limitation.

It’s all about enjoying the journey and taking life at your leisure.

‘bike distance’ is around 20 Km (about an hour), but it’s not something I’d be doing each and every day.
As such I’m glad my daily commute is a ten minute bikeride instead of the 40 minutes (14 Km) I used to have.

‘walking distance’ … is 2-3 km if need be (or about half an hour), which takes me to the center of town from where I live.
And unless it’s raining cats and dogs I don’t mind walking instead of taking public transport as I can get home faster that way … (why wait for half an hour for the next bus when you can get home in that amount of time ?)

We do have the advantage of not having any hills … but even that is something you can get used to.
I’m so used to living without a car that I don’t see it as a problem that the car-addicts claim it is.

I must admit that the kind of stories I hear from cyclists in the USA would scare me into using a car …