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by Symbiote 3906 days ago
What's the furthest you reckon they walk?

I was driven to school, though I walked 250m to a neighbours house half the time for the lift. Walking to school would have taken over half an hour at a good, adult pace.

(The fear was probably traffic more than strangers.)

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My elementary school was 1.4km away, the nearest bakery was like 800m, the grocery store was next to the bakery, the library was next to the school.

From 10 on I had to go to a secondary school which was 4.5km away, so I usually used the bike, but walked sometimes. At that age I also started using the bus to get to the other side of the city, or to take the bike and go to a cinema 12km away with friends, etc.

We obviously had almost no traffic here – except for busses and bikes. And construction vehicles.