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“Across the street” is still like a half hour between home and food. This seems impractical.
Actually, it's a win at that age. You get out of the house and can interact with lots of people, that's something most old people need more of.
Still faster than cooking, too.
plus regular walking is incredibly important.
and most people, (not just elderly) are way too sedentary.
even if the food is the typical amusement park junk food, it's probably better than being sedentary at home and driving to fas goods
Idea for a nonprofit: subsidized food, but it doesn't deliver, and you have to walk really far to reach it. Like a restaurant in the middle of the woods where there's no parking for two miles, at the top of a steep hill, etc.
Goodbye American obesity!
idea for a for profit.
a restaurant (in America businesses must have a minimum amount of parking). but we only have seating, all food comes from a rotating selection of food trucks that will occupy the parking lot, meaning you have to walk there to eat.
There used to be a spot near me that did exactly this. It was awesome.
Walking from the nearest house to Six Flags Magic Mountain takes around at least 50 mins. If you don't believe me, check on maps.
That's 50 mins of no shade, water, bathroom, or other pedestrians. If you get a heatstroke, you have few options. You can call an Uber and hope they are willing to illegally pick you up on the highway, pay for emergency services, or hope a good samaritan helps you out.
This isn't unique to this location, this is just how almost all American amusement parks are. They are located somewhere out of the city for cheaper rent, with the expectation that everyone arrives by car. This is why they are surrounded by highways and have very few walkable paths and entrances on the outside.
I get that it would be impractical in the US specifically. I just didn't think about you guys.
Six Flags, the amusement park mentioned in the post, are all located in the United states with the except of two in Canada and one in Mexico.
You'd have to drive at that age, too.
Too european for that, I thought you meant half an hour by foot. Most old people shouldn't be allowed to drive anymore.
I'm saying a half hour all together, driving across the street and into the massive parking area, finding a spot to park, walking from there into the amusement park, and finally deep enough into the park to find a restaurant. Then again, in reverse, to go back home.
You got something better to do?
For every meal, every day? Yes.
I mean, it sounds about what I do for groceries? Drive fifteen minutes to the store, find parking, walk through the store to get my stuff, drive home, takes an hour-ish. Then I gotta cook when I get home, so she's probably got the better deal here.
You do that for every meal?
Yeah, there have been times when I was depressed, working night shift, and only eating one meal a day, so going to the grocery store was also the only place I'd actually see another human. It's more efficient to shop for a week or a month at a time, but then I'd've just been a shut-in.
Well, there's my problem.
Faster than cooking? When you cook regularly you figure out quick meals and meals that take some prep. Quick meals are pasta with a sauce that takes less time to make than it takes the pasta to boil, stir fry, even most curries are ready within 30 minutes. Breakfast is quicker, even with toast or fried eggs.
Not saying it's not ingenious what she does, but cooking doesn't have to take a lot of time is all I'm saying.
Of course, that works. However, I was thinking about cooking the same meals you get at the park (assuming you guys have actual restaurants in there).
$300 for a season pass with food. Go twice a week in the spring/summer, 20 weeks * 2 times a week * 2 meals = 80 meals. That's $3.75 a meal + transportation. Go more and the price drops further.
At least in the US
Yes, that's where all the Six Flags properties are.
Fun fact: the name Six Flags refers to the six governments Texas has been under as the original park was named Six Flags over Texas. The flags specifically: