# How far are you from a Starbucks? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 23, 2002, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179 "2002-08-23T04:52:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![peasea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@peasea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peasea)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/41 "2002-08-23T12:55:57Z")
3 blocks. ---
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/42 "2002-08-23T13:17:29Z")
Work: right across the street Home: 8 mins walk I don’t drink coffee so I don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/43 "2002-08-23T13:19:42Z")
The nearest Starbucks from my house is about a quarter mile or so. The nearest coffee shop in general is about the same distance as it’s right across the street from Starbucks. I usually go to the other shop since their employees all know me and they know what I want (sometimes they’ll even start making it when they see me pull up). ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/44 "2002-08-23T13:43:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WV\_Woman > \*\*South Point, Chesapeake or Ironton? > > (I’m like, 3 miles from the southern Ohio border.) \*\* Wow! It’s hard to believe there are Dopers (or much of anyone outside family) who know of the area I’m talking of. Whenever someone mentions they’re from Ohio, I bring up these cities–and they all look at me blankly. Two of the three of those are where family still live, and have for several generations. Both of my parents were a bit ancy to discover other things and left in their college years. They are both the only members of their respective families to leave the area. I assume you’re in WV–heck, we lived in Timberlake when I was teeny. Where are you now? Meanwhile–wow! There’s even more Starbucks out there than I imagined. They truly have gone international. Ooh, I forgot about the one in Albertson’s. Add another Starbucks to my area, again about 3 miles away, and again in a different direction–north. Hell, that covers all cardinal points on the compass except south. How long before they “correct” that? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/45 "2002-08-23T13:49:21Z")
There’s one 30 floors, shall we say 300 feet, directly below my desk. From home, maybe 1/2 mile (That’s what - .8327 km?;)) But at work my buddy and I brew up nasty pots of cheap brew in our 12-cupper that we clean out every coupla years whether it needs it or not. Starbucks coffee is fine, Just too expensive for this cheapass polack. ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/46 "2002-08-23T14:07:22Z")
I’m sure no one will be surprised to hear that there are Starbucks in Korea. 48 of 'em, in fact. That includes a brand new one on Yongsan Army Installation - about a mile from my office. Come to think of it - there’s a Starbucks in the Pentagon. I wonder if there are Starbucks on other military installations around the world. I’m getting scared now. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/47 "2002-08-23T14:35:14Z")
1. Albertsons-Silverdale #492 2. Silverdale II 3. Safeway-Silverdale #1680 4. Silverdale Note that #1 is inside a grocery store - #2 is in the same shopping center, two doors down from the grocer (according to the [map](http://www.vicinity.com/starbucks00/geoprx1.hm?&AD4=USA&AD3=Bremerton%2c+WA+98311&AD2=8105+Spur+Ct+NW&FC=Retail%2cAirport&DBCOUNT=1) the first two are in the same location). They are about 1.5 miles from my house. #3 is about three blocks away from #1 & 2. #4 is about 4 blocks further from #3. My COUNTY has 9 Starbucks. ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/48 "2002-08-23T14:58:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dinsdale \* > \*\*There’s one 30 floors, shall we say 300 feet, directly below my desk. > \*\* Hmmm, **Dinsdale** , I am also 30 floors above the nearest Starbucks, although my cube sits a little to the south of the actual site. But if I wanted to get a coffee there (which I don’t; I’ve given up caffeine for the most part and even the smell wafting out of Starbucks makes my tummy cramp a little) I wouldn’t have to leave the building. I know it’s another chain, and so sue me for going there on the off day, but Dunkin Donuts coffee was far superior, and when I went there all the time the ladies behind the counter knew exactly what I wanted (despite heavy traffic of morning commuters in the Loop) every time. _That’s_ some service. Especially when I was barely coherent in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/49 "2002-08-23T15:00:18Z")
About a mile. However, I work 1 block from one (and 2 more within a mile) and I used to work 1/2 block from the original Starbucks, and there were (according to the map) at least 5 more within a 6 block radius (that also had at least 3 Tullys that I knew about and 2 Seattle’s Best Coffees not to mention the coffee carts - I love coffee carts). I had a _slight_ caffeine addiction then, ever so slight. ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/50 "2002-08-23T15:43:00Z")
At the moment I am 6 floors up and about a block away from the nearest Starbucks. So who gets the prize for closest, me or Dinsdale? Not that it does me any good to be so close. I seldom order anything but hot chocolate in a coffee shop and Starbucks has wretched hot chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/51 "2002-08-23T16:25:13Z")
2 floors down, 35 yards away. I work for a large oil company, there’s probably 1000 people in our complex, and we have our own Starbucks. ---
**Author:** ![Fibonacci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Fibonacci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibonacci)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/52 "2002-08-23T16:27:48Z")
From my office here in SF, there is one on the ground floor of my building, 6 floors directly below me. Within a 2 block radius, there are about 8 Starbucks. I can’t even begin to count all of the other coffee shops nearby, although mercifully there is a Peet’s about a block away. From my home out in the burbs, there’s a Peet’s a quarter mile away. Starbucks is about a half mile away, however there is also one in a Safeway in the same shopping center about 50 yards from that one. Let’s hope they put the “quit” back in ubiquitous soon. ---
**Author:** ![Fibonacci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Fibonacci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibonacci)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/53 "2002-08-23T16:39:43Z")
From my office here in SF, there is one on the ground floor of my building, 6 floors directly below me. Within a 2 block radius, there are about 8 Starbucks. I can’t even begin to count all of the other coffee shops nearby, although mercifully there is a Peet’s about a block away. From my home out in the burbs, there’s a Peet’s a quarter mile away. Starbucks is about a half mile away, however there is also one in a Safeway in the same shopping center about 50 yards from that one. Let’s hope they put the “quit” back in ubiquitous soon. ---
**Author:** ![Quonk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ed655f/32.png) [@Quonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quonk)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/54 "2002-08-23T18:52:36Z")
TWO Starbucks less than 2 blocks from my house. ---
**Author:** ![Sivalensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sivalensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sivalensis)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/55 "2002-08-23T19:44:05Z")
Well, at work at the moment there’s a Starbucks two large blocks away. At home it’s about the same (though a different one). ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/56 "2002-08-23T23:27:38Z")
4 blocks. If we’re talking stand-alone stores, 2.75 miles. ---
**Author:** ![DougAB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@DougAB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougAB)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/57 "2002-08-24T00:48:34Z")
Less than a mile, probably a few hundred yards. ---
**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/58 "2002-08-24T02:31:58Z")
across the street inside a train station. (do I win the prize?) Never tried it. Haven’t had a cup of coffee in more than 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/59 "2002-08-24T03:22:06Z")
There’s a Starbuck’s, I think, within three miles of me. I stop there two mornings a week for coffee, mostly a large regular with room for cream. Every once in awhile I get my absolute favorite, a Triple Venti Mocha Latte (skinny, no whip). I like Starbuck’s. Their coffee’s strong and it tastes good and it wakes me up and stuff. I also like scoping all of the well-dressed, good-smelling patrons jabbering on cell phones inside the joint. It looks like a Meg Ryan movie or something. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179/60 "2002-08-24T04:30:43Z")
Two blocks, I think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-a-starbucks/125179.md?page=4)