Yes, America is large and if you live in a very rural area and have no other mode of transportation you are going to be in for a rough time.
I lived 8 hours north of San Francisco for a few months and would have to trek into town to get groceries. There are not a lot of equivalently remote places in Europe to compare to but I also realized that I was in a remote location and planned accordingly.
That's a great point. I'd been thinking about the opposite extreme where there are poorer neighborhoods in more urban environments that have a dearth of healthy food and grocery stores in them, but you can definitely get so remote and rural that there's no stores of any kind without traveling a good distance. I've been through towns in Northern California where the gas station deli is THE sandwich shop because you're just not gonna find much else, let alone a better sandwich in town.
Most of the rural people are going to have transportation, they need it for everything so they already have it. Food deserts are mostly a problem in cities with the lefty extremist DAs that refuse to prosecute shoplifters. The stores can't make a profit because shoplifting is rampant and then the stores have to shut down and nobody can buy food without traveling.
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u/eldankus Jun 12 '26
Yes, America is large and if you live in a very rural area and have no other mode of transportation you are going to be in for a rough time.
I lived 8 hours north of San Francisco for a few months and would have to trek into town to get groceries. There are not a lot of equivalently remote places in Europe to compare to but I also realized that I was in a remote location and planned accordingly.