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> "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
>
> > Damn. That is not what Mapion.co.jp tells me. Osaka looks over 50
> kilometers
> > across,
>
> Certainly not. You are confusing the prefecture and the city, and you know
> it.

Really? So urban Osaka is, in fact, 600 m wide, or walking distance for
"anyone" as you are repeatedly claiming?

> And you are going to the mountains are an "urban area", etc

So how wide is urban Osaka, really? And why don't you admit that most Osaka
people, even those downtown, are NOT walking distance from where they want to
be for work, school, shopping?

> > I can ride my bicycle under five minutes to go to popular restaurants I
> like,
>
> That's great that you don't want to have friends or relatives living further
> than 1.5 km,

They do. It's what the car and local international airport are for.

> that you don't want to go out see other places and meet anybody else than
> neighbours,

I do. And I also go to work.

> so you have no reason to go to a restaurant or anywhere that is
> not at a walking distance.

We do.

> So yeah, you get what you want where you are. There is no way you wouldn't
> in fact. Good for you.
>
> BTW, I don't see in what I insulted your island.

What if I called your country a "muddy country" with one McDonald's the closest
thing to a restaurant within a 15 km hike of anywhere, or a tourist ghetto?

> I have nothing against people that live in places where facilities and shops
> are spread out,

And that is not I in Fukuyama. But it is so for millions of Osaka people, and
other people in big cities, though you simply refuse to accept it.

By the way, the people in that restaurant you had lunch in. All staff and
customers from within walking distance, or 300 m? Aren't they "anyone"? Were
even 70% from that neighborhood?

Or *gasp* did they take more than five minutes, or even more than 20 on foot,
to get there?

> and where the nature has not been completely covered by concrete.
> And you're the one talking about Fukuyama as if that was a 7-11.

It is not. Why haven't you paid attention to all my other posts criticizing
Fukuyama over the years which you've responded to?

From the very beginning of this thread, I am saying that it is so conveniently
located for ME.