one even farther removed from an urban environment.
Around here, there are few sidewalks, no grocery stores withing easy
walking distance of most homes, and no public transportation. Wal*Mart
has a sidewalk out front, a grocery store inside (after all, it *is*
"Super"), and little carts you can ride if you are old, injured, or
absurdly lazy. And, while getting there from most places around here
does require a car, it is most certainly a market center for the area,
which nearly qualifies as a hinterland.
Hmm. Maybe I wasn't all that silly. Damn.
--Ben
Won Lee wrote:
> At 16:42 9/27/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>>I was using a definition something along the lines of contains
>>>sidewalks, is possible to walk to a grocery store, has public
>>>transportation and does not require owning a car. Also, is market
>>>center for a hinterland.
>>
>>Around here, we call that "Wal*Mart".
>
>
> Having a WalMart automatically removes an area from the being a city. Not
> because I don't like WalMart. I actually love to go to WalMart when I
> visit VA, but because WalMart will not build in urban areas due to cost of
> business and competition.
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