alt Hacker NewsSure, I would. In the scope of giant corpo entities, Costco seems like they'd be a decent-enough neighbor to have. They keep short hours: The earliest they're open for regular knuckle-draggers and ruffians is 9:30AM. They're never open after 8:30PM. On weekends, they wrap up by 6:00 or 7:00PM.
Last time I went to Costco, I parked over by the edge of the lot by fences with single-family homes behind them.
It was a busy time of day, but it seemed quiet enough. I remember thinking to myself, "Self, if I lived there, then the first thing I'd do is install a gate in that fence so I could just walk over to Costco."
And I've certainly lived in much noisier neighborhoods with far fewer opportunities to walk around and conduct commerce. I'll take the noise of Costco parking lot traffic over that of a congested 5-way city intersection any day.
Living on a steady diet of $1.50 all-beef hot dogs (with a Coke (with refill!)) probably wouldn't be the healthiest way, but I think I'd find a balance somehow.
The realities of living next to a Costco are a lot different than what you describe here. You don’t seem to realize that semis will keep coming over beyond the hours you describe, the pollution, noise and traffic is way higher than what you describe here and just walking over to Costco sounds nice for a minute but then you realize that it’s huge waste of time to go for smaller shopping trips, and you won’t be making larger trips all the time.
You need to have a much more honest take than this and mention the real downsides if you’re going to say you’ll do it.