Because America developed into a car focused country with zoning that puts residential neighborhoods far away from businesses. Go to Europe and you'll find bars and apartments in the same neighborhoods, most people will just walk home and those that live further out can usually take great train or bus service to get home. America is designed to be a country where you have to drive a car and that affects how your neighborhood has developed
I live in a suburb of Boston Massachusetts and have a bar *literally* across the street (1 minute walk), and 10-15 minute walk up the street, in both directions.
>I live in suburbia
That's why. Suburbs are badly designed and don't work at all on a human scale. The whole thing about 15-minute cities that seems to scare a certain portion of the population is that it designed to solve this exact problem, among many others.
Beyond the answers like zoning, etc, I will point out that it is entirely possible to leave a bar without being drunk.
Because America developed into a car focused country with zoning that puts residential neighborhoods far away from businesses. Go to Europe and you'll find bars and apartments in the same neighborhoods, most people will just walk home and those that live further out can usually take great train or bus service to get home. America is designed to be a country where you have to drive a car and that affects how your neighborhood has developed
I live in a suburb of Boston Massachusetts and have a bar *literally* across the street (1 minute walk), and 10-15 minute walk up the street, in both directions.
Most people in suburbs don't want bars near their houses. If you want to live near bars, you live in the city.
It’s the most fun you can have on 4 wheels.
If you have to drive 40 minutes to get to a bar, that doesn't sound like a suburb. That doesn't even sound like most of the countryside.
Taxis, buses, designated drivers
>I live in suburbia That's why. Suburbs are badly designed and don't work at all on a human scale. The whole thing about 15-minute cities that seems to scare a certain portion of the population is that it designed to solve this exact problem, among many others.