[znowcone]

Doesn't sound like a lot to be honest. This is what I'm used to in Germany, say around 1km radius, everything walkable:

* 1x big REWE, 3x small REWE, 1x Real, 1x Netto, 2x ALDI, 3x LIDL, 1x Turkish grocery store, 1x Asian grocery store

* Too many kiosks too count (tobacco, drinks, snacks, maybe like a convinience store)

* Too many bakeries to count

* 2 tram/metro stations, soon to be 3

* 5 bus stations (not counting the weird ones)

What they probably meant was they can hop on a bike and be in /any/ supermarket they fancy in this time.

Your city seems pretty good compared to what we're usually seeing from city planning in the US though.

[throwaway894345]

Oh, that wasn’t an exhaustive list, just the places my wife and I go. We also have various american, african, asian, and middle eastern corner stores and a dozen restaurants, Dollar Store type shops, liquor stores, and some other things I’m forgetting. But I also live between a large park and a body of water so there’s presumably less area in my “1km radius” than yours. Either way, my point wasn’t that my US city is better than European cities, but rather that it’s more walkable than most American cities.

[hef19898]

That does sound like the Ruhrpott if I had to guess!

[znowcone]

I feel like it could be an elaborate social engineering attack, but yes bingo :)

[hef19898]

The Kiosks gave it away! I've never seen such density of them anywhere, incl. Berlin. And definitely not Bavaria! They are pretty cool, so!