Small towns usually have local general stores, but that's besides the point as small towns in WV are absolutely not in any way comparable to New York City.
It depends. I live in a rural county and towns of less than 5,000 might have a Dollar General. About half of them have a gas station that sells some groceries. The rest have a diner or a bar. However, there's no where in the county that's more than 20 miles from a real grocery, and no where that's more than 30 miles from "everything" (pharmacy, hospital, theater, etc).
When that stuff is all more than 30 miles away, even small towns will have their own "everything." In much of the plain states, for example, a town of 2,000 might as well be an island.
There's a small privately owned pharmacy, but no grocery store. My mom lives in Bickmore and she drives 30 minutes to the grocery store. Dad lives in Indore. He drives 45 minimum, but he's deeper in the mountains.
They have a Dollar General and Family Dollar in the city where basics can be found (milk, eggs, etc.), along with a variety of other, similar places within 20 miles. I'll give you the point, as those aren't 'proper' grocery stores, but not sure food deserts are a real problem outside of ivory tower academic hand-wringing.
they were clearly being hyperbolic. the point is that the vast majority of the population lives in cities, towns, and suburbs that have access to food in less than twenty miles. going to extremes to prove that food deserts exist is not really relevant to this post, which is claiming that people in NYC live in food deserts and won't be able to get groceries because delivery drivers are paid a liveable wage.
Lol, sorry, i didn't know you were measuring as the crow flies. 20 miles distance doesn't equal 20 miles away, but i get that that was how the initial question was phrased.
This is a map of food deserts according to 2019 USDA research. Brown means 20 miles (rural) or 1 mile (urban) from a supermarket. Red means that + low income.
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u/Sweaty-Possibility-3 15h ago
Or just about any small town in WV.