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How fast do you walk when you are:

1) exploring 2) a new place 2a) which also happens to be dark 2b) with potential safety hazards 3) whilst your buddy is filming the potentially interesting things you point at

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As someone who somewhat regularly walks two miles, and has personal metrics on such, I know it would still take me most of an hour even at my fastest pace to walk two miles. Cars give a weird sense of geography and people both drastically under- ("It takes only five minutes to drive, it must be 'close'") and over-estimate ("I always drive between these places, they must be too far apart to walk") walking time of even just a couple miles.

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