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<blockquote data-quote="Living-by-the-beach" data-source="post: 860564" data-attributes="member: 128654"><p>[USER=174164]@Steve50[/USER]</p><p></p><p>I live on the left coast her in the US and yes NYC has peculiarities that make one more active. Its very difficult and expensive to park a car in NY. That's the deal. There's trains & subways everywhere, its fully connected. So people don't have cars as much or rarely use them. So the locals get much more exercise natively.</p><p></p><p>OTOH In Los Angeles to this day has metro systems do not yet have a direct connect from the airport to Los Angeles downtown railway system! In LA realistically you can't live with out transport. Bikes do help enormously. We have buses now that will pick you up with your bike as you mount that onto a rack at the front of the bus. So per capita most New Yorkers get more exercise because of how their local systems work. On a Saturday night in the old days I'd regularly drive 20 miles for a pizza. That would be unheard of in the UK but it feels easy here as the motorways (= freeways) are well designed. FWIW In the 1960's the car companies bought out the railroad companies in Los Angeles and took out all the tracks. Now 50 years later the councils are struggling to put them back and its car gridlock to get to work.</p><p></p><p>The bigger problem in the US is the distances though. California (just one of 50 states) is 3 times the size of the UK so while grandiose plans have been drawn up for high-speed rail link between San Francisco & Los Angeles one can't get a high-speed link between LA and Chicago. That's a plane ride away. Its a big country over here.</p><p></p><p>In his latest video presentation in 2014 by Professor Taylor, (which is worth watching in its entirety) <a href="https://campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=c3bef819-e5f4-4a55-876f-0a23436988ed&v=1" target="_blank">https://campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=c3bef819-e5f4-4a55-876f-0a23436988ed&v=1</a> at minute 46.10 shows a photo of skinny people walking across a street in front of C&A's in Newcastle back in the 1980s. Those folks no longer exist. I suspect that its the long term effects of HFCS has taken its toll on society.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Living-by-the-beach, post: 860564, member: 128654"] [USER=174164]@Steve50[/USER] I live on the left coast her in the US and yes NYC has peculiarities that make one more active. Its very difficult and expensive to park a car in NY. That's the deal. There's trains & subways everywhere, its fully connected. So people don't have cars as much or rarely use them. So the locals get much more exercise natively. OTOH In Los Angeles to this day has metro systems do not yet have a direct connect from the airport to Los Angeles downtown railway system! In LA realistically you can't live with out transport. Bikes do help enormously. We have buses now that will pick you up with your bike as you mount that onto a rack at the front of the bus. So per capita most New Yorkers get more exercise because of how their local systems work. On a Saturday night in the old days I'd regularly drive 20 miles for a pizza. That would be unheard of in the UK but it feels easy here as the motorways (= freeways) are well designed. FWIW In the 1960's the car companies bought out the railroad companies in Los Angeles and took out all the tracks. Now 50 years later the councils are struggling to put them back and its car gridlock to get to work. The bigger problem in the US is the distances though. California (just one of 50 states) is 3 times the size of the UK so while grandiose plans have been drawn up for high-speed rail link between San Francisco & Los Angeles one can't get a high-speed link between LA and Chicago. That's a plane ride away. Its a big country over here. In his latest video presentation in 2014 by Professor Taylor, (which is worth watching in its entirety) [URL]https://campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=c3bef819-e5f4-4a55-876f-0a23436988ed&v=1[/URL] at minute 46.10 shows a photo of skinny people walking across a street in front of C&A's in Newcastle back in the 1980s. Those folks no longer exist. I suspect that its the long term effects of HFCS has taken its toll on society. [/QUOTE]
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