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[–] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 129 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yup, walking everywhere when I briefly lived in Europe was huge for me, both for my physical and mental health.

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 84 points 5 months ago (12 children)

I really miss having a reason to walk all day, like when I was in university. Now I work from home, and while I can walk around the block of whatever, it just isn't nearly the same.

[–] onion@feddit.de 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Another option is to install StreetComplete on your phone and do something useful for society while on a walk

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ngl I like this idea. I highly doubt there's much around me worth noting, but I'll absolutely check it out and do what I can.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The things around me have all been stuff like "what material is the power pole made out of?" "What is the road surface on ____ street?" "What are the restrictions on parking here?" Etc. but there is an advanced mode you can use which unlocks harder questions that less people answer

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh interesting, I kinda dig that.

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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Get yourself into photography. You don't need anything expensive, if you have a phone camera, that will do.

Document the strange and interesting things in your environment. The people, the architecture.

It gets you out of the house a mission per day. It gives you a goal.

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, the idea of adding another hobby to my Jenga tower of hobbies is a bit scary, but you aren't wrong that it would get me out more. Might be worth a shot (pun intended).

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[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I WFH a couple of days per week and living in a 15 minute walkable city is wonderful for walks compared to when I lived in the suburbs. But that's me and having an endless amount of actual stuff to walk to compared to an endless sea of cookie cutter houses and grass is my idea of heaven vs hell, in that order.

[–] JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can recommend GPS games like pokemon go or Jurassic World Alive. Gives you some motivation and entertainment to walk once you get into it.

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[–] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The same for me. Although I could and would game in the dorm as much as I liked, I'd have pretty regular evening walks with friends over 2 hours with sitting for a bit on good places around the campus. On top of regular school stuff that'd amount to 4k-5k steps, these walks would add 5k-8k more on top, sometimes totalling 20k and not a single step or minute would be boring or hard to find motivation for.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

people giving you reasons here to leave the house - amateurs, just install an under desk treadmill

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[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Rescue a dog, my guy.

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have a dog, and we walk around the block(s), but it's boring. When I can, I drive my dog down to the forest paths for a walk, but that's like, a whole event.

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Get a dog, if you can't then dedicate an hour or two to walking, make it an obligation.

I WFH and walk 5 to 10km a day... If you had the time to do it before and don't have more obligations than before then it's on you if you don't do it anymore...

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[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 68 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Complaining about things over a two hour lunch break *with a glass of wine

Sorted that for you

[–] englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Works without wine too.

[–] Senseless@feddit.de 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But works with wine and without lunch as well.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It has to be in a parisian restaurant otherwise its only sparkly debate.

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But not without whine.

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[–] adj16@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I know this is a joke, but also I want to see how she is in 6 months. An interruption to your current monotony could be all it takes - once you settle back into routine, will you still be fixed?

[–] Liz@midwest.social 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Lots of walking to and from places throughout your day is super good for your physical and mental health, all else being equal. Afterall, we're descended from nomads.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

i would imagine it peters off after a while, hence why we have vacations.

[–] Denalduh@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You guys have vacations?

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Of course, because a happy worker is a more productive worker.

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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah but France also has way more vacations.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

A good thing about walking is that there are so many more possible routes than with driving so the monotony can continually be remediated.

And since it's personable, unlike sitting in a car alone, each walk could automatically be novel.

I would argue the monotony may take much longer than before to appear.

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[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

She should go to Spain and take a nap after complaining during lunch. You reach a next level of consciousness

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Does that 2 hours come out of your work day or do you have still stay 2 hours later? I don't even use my 1 hour lunch break because not using it let's me get off earlier.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Depends on your job, and what it's being offset against. Some workplaces care more about your work that your office hours. OTOH some workplaces are run by psychotic control freaks who've forgotten what the point is 🤷

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes the point of a job is to be in a certain place at a certain time, so job places requiring you to follow the clock makes sense in a lot of cases.

If your job is to make at least 25 "thingies", and you make 25, you should be able to go home.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago

Back when I worked a job with a target (25 work items in this case) it would have been reasonably cheap for them to massively increase productivity by doing that

Finish the day's work and go home

Instead they demanded 25 work items, gave us enough work to deliver around 15 each and wanted us on site regardless of whether work was done

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[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't come out of your hours so yes in practice you finish later and/or start earlier.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

F that. I guess it's nice if you need to go to a doctor or something but no way as a standard thing.

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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

There are better places than Paris for hiking...

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Paris is a lovely walk-able city, though.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Too bad there are so many French people

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Parisians, specifically. Paris isn't all of France.

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Literally the only drawback

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s completely subjective.

Depends on what you want to get out of your hike. Want historic sites and a café? Go hike an old city. Want mosquitos and beautiful open vistas? Go hike a mountain trail.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Well, i'm swiss and hiking is something you do on mountains to me. Visiting a city is taking a stroll.

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[–] storcholus@feddit.de 7 points 5 months ago

That's not hiking, that just happens in a day

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[–] sigezayaq@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

Moving out of Paris actually did wonders to my mental health. Worst city to live in in my opinion.

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