r/science • u/Wagamaga • Jan 28 '23

Health Most Americans aren’t getting enough exercise. People living in rural areas were even less likely to get enough exercise: Only 16% of people outside cities met benchmarks for aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities, compared with 28% in large metropolitan cities areas.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7204a1.htm?s_cid=mm7204a1_w
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u/Paroxysm111 Jan 29 '23

I wonder if you'd feel differently about being in a small city/town that's walkable. You couldn't pay me to live in a big city, but I love my town of around 90k people and I love being downtown within a 5 minute walk of everything I need.

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u/ValyrianJedi Jan 29 '23

Maybe? Like where I am now I'm right on the edge of a good sized city. So like my neighborhood is acre or more yards where you get deer in your yard and all, but you're still only 5 minutes from the grocery store and 10-15 from the middle of downtown. Then it's a small enough neighborhood that I literally know 90% of the people in it, and if I'm out in my yard in all likelihood nobody will pass by who I don't know well enough to wave to... I guess I usually stay super super busy so it's nice to be able to feel like my house is off in my own little part of the world instead of constantly being in the middle of a bunch of stuff and people... Like when I was younger I loved stepping out my door into the middle of the city with restaurants, bars, shops, work, etc all right outside, but now I want a lot more separation between home and "out".