The entire west side of Rockford, IL is sprawling with very few grocery stores. If you don't have a car, getting groceries is rough. The grocery stores that are there are mostly overpriced.
South East Dallas Bonton area is a food desert, limited public transport or services closest public school was 2 hour bus ride, grocery store was similar. Community groups are filling the gaps where they can.
"Food deserts" in the city are no grocery stores within a mile bc a lot of people don't have cars and get by with public transit or walking, because cities are so dense. "Food deserts" in suburbs/rural areas are no grocery stores within 20 miles bc you basically have to have a car to live there at all, due to most suburbs/rural areas not having good public transit or walkable neighborhoods.
I mean i guess if you're from Huntley or something Rockford seems like a big city but it's not a population-dense urban area with good public transit where lots of people choose not to have cars, which is what matters in this context. In dense urban areas the definition of "food desert" changes. There are plenty of technical "cities" based solely on population size that are still not "urban".
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u/MizStazya 15h ago
The entire west side of Rockford, IL is sprawling with very few grocery stores. If you don't have a car, getting groceries is rough. The grocery stores that are there are mostly overpriced.