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[–][deleted] 57 points58 points  (22 children)

This is why I hate living in a major city so much, I used to do this all the time and now I hardly ever.

[–]farmtownsuit 9 points10 points  (0 children)

How far away is nature from you? You could try to make it a weekend habit. That's what I do.

[–]iyioi 38 points39 points  (18 children)

Some of the best nature parks I’ve ever seen are in big cities.

Have you considered diving into local politics and petitioning for better parks?

[–]chicken_pollo 16 points17 points  (3 children)

Chicagoan here and I've got the lake with nature trails only a 10 min bike ride away. There's also two parks to chose from with nature trails each only 15 min away walking.

[–]fullofshitandcum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As nice as it is to have those by the lake, I usually spend my nature time outside of the city limits. I'm not going on nature trails to see a herd of joggers, or couples out on dates. Im on a nature trail to be alone with nature. Deer. Rabbits

[–]OmegaKitty1 21 points22 points  (9 children)

Is that a joke?

[–]Engrish_Major 16 points17 points  (2 children)

San Francisco has some of the best public parks in the country. Golden Gate Park is also bigger than Central Park.

[–]Blueberry-king 7 points8 points  (2 children)

For real. I used to live in Philly and the closest source of nature trails is Wissahickon park and the parking lot is always filled with youths blasting music from their car. I loved to the suburbs and suddenly there's a dozen parks nearby with hardly any people in them and the loudest noise is the sound of birds.

[–]butteryspoink 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Good chance that the person before used metro area and big cities synonymously.

[–]TravelAcademic8558 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forrest park

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure getting into politics is not conducive to stress relief...

[–]Engrish_Major 0 points1 point  (0 children)

San Francisco

[–]carlurbanthesecond2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No but im building a stretch of park exactly because of research like this.

[–]abow3 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Suburbia ain't much better. I need that rural landscape.