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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 9:18:14 AM

hizgeorgiapeach

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57 out of 100 for my neighborhood, but it should have scored slightly higher than that. There are at least 3 parks that weren't listed, a dozen different fast food and other resturants that weren't listed, 2 grocery stores that weren't listed, 4 convenience stores that weren't listed, 3 vets (for the pets) and 2 urgent care centers (for the humans) that weren't listed, 2 dry cleaners that weren't listed, and dozens of stores in 2 strip malls and 1 indoor mall that weren't listed - all within a mile radius of me.

The distances for what they DID list were pretty much accurate (at least when you consider straight line lol) - but don't take into account that to get there in that distance would require jumping a bunch of neighbors' fences and cutting through their yards. To get there without doing so, add anywhere from 1/10 to 6/10 of a mile.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 9:30:36 AM

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My neighborhood got a big Zero.....

I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact I live five miles outside the city limits?

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 11:37:10 AM

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Mine is a 60 - Somewhat Walkable

Closest supermarket (or almost anything) is .36 miles away. I do walk there once and a while when I need to pick a few things up. But, it's on my drive home, so I'll just combine the trip. And it's almost impossible to live here without a car if you want to leave the town.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 11:45:14 AM

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God damned 2%

I live out here in bear country so it figures.

Still walk/bike to the store sometimes just for a change and exercise.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 12:14:50 PM

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Walk Score:

57 out of 100 — Somewhat Walkable

There are a lot of sidewalks around here. A beautiful park, and lots of shops and restaurants nearby. We also live on a deadend street with lots of cul de sacs. *yay!*

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 12:23:23 PM

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17 for us - not surprising. CA got paid off by the auto/tire/gas companies back in the 50's to make sure there was no public transportation anywhere.

After 7 years I'm still amazed that you can't get to Vegas, or San Fransisco from LA by train and AmTrak service is a bus! The light rail goes to and from nowhere. Every so often they try to build something to take people to and from where they need to go; but there is always some conservation group in the way protecting some essential blind salamander population. I guess the 'conservationists' feel it's better they die from auto emissions than being disrupted by a viable mass transportation system.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 1:17:10 PM

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My downtown office got an 86, which makes sense, but my home, which is 2.5 miles away got a 6? I don't get it...

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 3:05:07 PM

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Walk Score:

18 out of 100 — Car-Dependent

It also had business's on there that don't exactly exist anymore.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 3:14:19 PM

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Walk Score:

12 out of 100 — Car-Dependent
Yup, that's pretty accurate for me.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 3:29:44 PM

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Walk Score: 0 out of 100 — Car-Dependent

I believe the mileage is calculated point a to point b straight line, or "as the crow flies".

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 5:10:16 PM

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Walk Score: 0 out of 100 — Car-Dependent

wow.....i find this to be kind of funny because i'm 3 miles to town and pretty much everything they listed as destinations was in the other direction, across the state line (i live close to the border).
if i wanted to get to any of these things i'd have to hike thru woods....huh????

btw...i did this thing twice because i just couldn't believe the results were so asinine.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 5:20:00 PM

hermione83

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Cool thread, could you link me to the other car thread (besides the one I started)?

Walk Score:

31 out of 100 — Car-Dependent

And this is the most urban place I've ever lived.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 5:23:10 PM

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Walk Score: 98 out of 100 — Walkers' Paradise

That's why I live here.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 5:27:25 PM

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mine is 15 out of a hundred,but everything is only two miles away. I can get there down a road with a nice wide paved shoulder in less than fifteen minutes.

Bus into seattle runs from there too-and it has bike racks.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 5:37:43 PM

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We have a bus system in my little city. But it only runs until 6:00 in the evening. Theoretically, I could do without a car here. But it would seriously hinder my social life. I could do all the necessary things like getting to work and shopping. Hell, I could probably get around completely on a bicycle. I don't live in a large city. But like I said, I wouldn't be getting to many dates.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 5:37:46 PM

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i got Walk Score:

58 out of 100 — Somewhat Walkable.

Nifty.

And yes, i have and do take advantage of walking here every now and then. When i can convince myself i need the exercise, that is, lol, i'll go for a walk down to the Barnes & Noble/Panda Express/Ralph's/Bank or head the other way to go down to Dairy Queen/the deli/Jack in the Box.

The city my parents are in scored a 22 - Car Dependent.

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 7:08:49 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: subrob1967

Walk Score: 0 out of 100 — Car-Dependent

I believe the mileage is calculated point a to point b straight line, or "as the crow flies".

Yes it is - thats why there were places on mine that would require a bay swim to get there LOL The only way to get there overland - short of climbing fences and traversing backyards - would require driving to seabrook to get to the road that actually goes there. LOL

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RE: Your neighborhood's walkability score - 7/18/2008 9:54:10 PM

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75/100. They missed a bunch of closer stuff though. They missed a ton of bars and restaurants, The closest movie theater, which is not 3/4 of a mile like they suggest, but rather like 2 blocks. They got a fair amount of the grocery stores that are within a mile. But they picked up alot I don't consider groceries.

Personally I'd rate my neighborhood a bit higher. Mostly because I can walk out my door, turn right, walk 100 yards and be staring at a pizza shop, taco bell, 2 dollar stores, a cvs, a liquor store, a beer distributor, a health food store, another pharmacy, a chinese restaurant, a bank and a gas station. If I walk 20 more yards I come to a place with some of the best hotdogs ever.

3 blocks to downtown. If I go there I've got 2 libraries along the way, a nice farmer's market every week, a department store, a bookstore, a used game store, several deli's and sandwich shoppes, another chinese restaurant, a performing arts theater, etc, etc.

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