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NDR: What's your walkability score?

I'm just really nosy, so humor me.  Big Smile 

Go here: http://www.walkscore.com/ and enter your address.  Come back here and post your walkability score. 

 

Mine is (drumroll please): 3  We live in the sticks and only get those 3 points because there are a couple wineries within 2 miles.  hahaha

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  • Our current house is 75 and our first house was 62.  But I pick places that are really central so we can ride/walk to restaurants, stores, etc.
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  • Previous: 18 - Again, not accurate, as there is a lot rather close, but you really shouldn't be relying on busy Hwys for walking, IMO.

    Current Temp Housing: 9 - Total crap. You'd have to be quite desperate to walk to any of the places they list.

    New Build: 3 - Not too accurate since "entertainment" is the village museum.

  • Ours is 62. Being close enough to a downtown area to able to walk to fun things was one of our main criteria when house hunting.
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  • It's 55 now...before we moved in January it was 69 (I actually think that should have been higher as we were super close to our downtown area.)
  • Zero! LOL

     

    And it's totally accurate.  The closest thing is a gas station (with a Baskin Robbins, tyvm lol) about a mile away.  Town is about 5 miles away, and it has a cute historic square and all that, but you certainly can't walk the highways to get there.

  • Mine's a 26.  Apparently 78% of residents in my town have a higher walkability score, but I find that hard to believe...
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    Zero! LOL

     

    And it's totally accurate.  The closest thing is a gas station (with a Baskin Robbins, tyvm lol) about a mile away.  Town is about 5 miles away, and it has a cute historic square and all that, but you certainly can't walk the highways to get there.

    Mine is also a ZERO!! But your zero is closer to something than my zero.  I have a family owned handmade ice cream ship 3 miles away and a super duper awesome family diner 4 miles. 

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  • 9. Like a PP said, you'd have to be desperate to walk to any of the places listed. The closest is the high school - I have no reason to walk there!
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  • 48. However, I would NOT walk anywhere. I don't trust the people who drive around here, nor do I feel that safe walking.
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  • 15 though I don't think that is accurrate.  We have groceries, shopping, banks, restaurants, a park and a movie theater all within 1.5 miles or less.
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  • 100.

    Before I moved to the city it was 57.

  • 52

     

    There are a few things close by, you could walk to them, a gas station, Taco John's, Little Ceasar's.

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    Mine is (drumroll please): 3  

    Same.  Minus the wineries, womp womp.

  • 94...

    I work about a 40 minute drive north of the city, but if I did not have to commute for work, SO and I would totally only have one car (for when we wanted to get out of the city.) I walk every where. I dance with a company that has it's studio across the street from me, there are several cute stores including cute mens shops and home stores in my neighborhood, I do my grocery shopping at several local markets, (specialty cheese shop across the street, a local farm/produce store that specializes in local organic produce, a butcher shop and a well stocked market.) We have so many amazing restaurants in our neighborhood and I'm a 15 minute walk from a major shopping mall with a great selection of stores... (Barneys, one of the first J.Crew Mens shops which makes me very, very happy, Vineyard Vines, Saks) Plus Newbury Street has some of our favorite designers as well. I love living in this area, I just wish I had a parking spot! If we had a  parkability score I would be a 3. : )

  • Big fat zero. We are surrounded by farms. Lots and lots of farms. At the end of our road (about three miles is a community college, church, mcdonalds, and about a mile from there a coffee shop, gym, grocery store, convenience store and furniture store. Not at all walk able, windy, hilly country road to get there with no safe place to walk. ETA: I am laughing that Ginger and I posted next to each other and happen to live in complete opposite types of places. Also the website says we have a bertuccis 1.92 miles away. Closest one is like ten + miles away. Mmmhhhhh.
  • Our new home is a whopping 22!

    We're an 80 here at our rental, and we certainly have taken advantage of how close we are to so many local shops, restaurants, parks,etc.  This is certainly going to be an adjustment!

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    72.  We're surrounded by restaurants, bars, parks and an elementary school.  DH walks to work. 

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  • How fun!  We are 75.
  • 63, but like someone else said, I don't feel safe walking around here. Not without my DH, anyway. There is too much crime. My friend's teenage son was jumped and brutally beaten when walking to the grocery store that I shop at, in the middle of the afternoon just a couple of months ago.

     I'd love to be able to walk everywhere, but not around here.  

  • 82, we live in a city though. 
  • 28.

    I can't for the life of me figure out how it is even that high, since most of the amenities (anything over .5 miles) that they listed are actually impossible to walk to from our house.   Once you get past that half mile mark, the sidewalks end and for the next mile or two you risk getting run over in the street, run over by farm or utility trucks, or falling into a ditch while trying to get past the citrus groves.

    My business partner lives 2 miles away and there isn't even a safe way to ride a bicycle to her house, much less walk there.  

    They list a movie theater 4.4 miles away that is incredibly difficult to get to.  I think it is 4.4 miles 'as the crow flies', but to get there by car would easily add at least a mile, and walking there safely would probably be worse. 

  • 96 :) not too bad! i live in Chicago, though, right around public transit. Walkability is very important to me.
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  • Currently a 94, but the house we're (most likely) buying is a 68. It'll be hard giving up two grocery stores, a shopping mall, and a Target within walking distance.
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