Well, we don’t live in Walkland, so what I consider “walking distance” is nothing to New Yorkers. However, realistically I’d walk to the dry cleaners (I actually do walk there) and a branch library (but I work at the main one) and some restaurants, although that’s a stretch for me (but not for real walkers). Oh, and a Midas, which I’ve used when I needed a patched tire.
Arthur’s Seat and , birthplace of modern geology!
About a bajillion pubs, sandwich shops and small shops (student area).
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_castle]Edinburgh Castle
Holyrood Palace, summer home of HRM Queen Elizabeth II.
The Scottish Parliament
The Royal Mile and [url=Princes Street - Wikipedia].
Basically, I can walk to anywhere in Edinburgh city centre.
Within spitting distance: less than 10 minutes
Vons (grocery store chain here in CA, though not my favourite)
Rite Aid
Very decent Thai restaurant
My gym (I can’t highlight how awesome this is…I am totally spoilt)
Domino’s (a sometimes shameful caloric indulgence)
Branch library
15-20 minute amble:
Dry Cleaner
Better Pizza Joint
30 Minutes:
CalTech (should I have a sudden Physics related emergency)
Shopping District that includes various restaurants, my twat waxer, Trader Joe’s, Border’s, Ross, Anthropologie etc. etc…
All the usual places I’d go: My office, my church, the grocery store, many of my friends’ houses, a couple of movie theaters.
The community garden plots, though I don’t have a plot this year.
The T. rex capital of the world
The local hospital
Wal-Mart, K Mart, and the largest mall in the county
About a dozen different urban parks, including a great sledding area
The public library
An amateur theater company
Most of these are far enough that I’d usually prefer to bike, but I’ve walked all of them. There are also several very good trails in a distance that I could walk, except that the route goes along a few 70 MPH roads with no sidewalks.
Well, in addition to a ton of restaurants, two grocery stores, a farmer’s market, probably 10 coffee shops, dry cleaners, banks, shoe repair stores and donut shops, I am fortunate enough to live only about 300 yards from a gun and ammo store that’s painted in camouflage. I think they have bait there too. I know they have a life-sized deer decoy standing out along the street.
There’s also a weird-ass painting of St Francis Cabrini on the outer wall of a barn just across the street from me. Plus a guy who has what looks like a cruise missile attached to his pickup truck. Oh, and a couple of psychics/palm reader-type businesses.
Now that’s what I call convenience.
The entire Mont-Royal shopping district is a 3 minute walk away, and St-Denis, St-Laurent street and all their shops and hundreds of restaurants are maybe 10 minutes away? We are a few blocks from the metro lines, but there are a half dozen bus lines within 100 metres from our door. We have a Metro grocery store down the street, an SAQ, and no less than 7 dépanneurs within a 3-street radius. Two laundromats, 5 hair dressers, 2 lawyers and a notary in pretty much the same area. 2 bike shops, a couple of car dealerships, a massive park with all it’s sport activities, a gym and indoor public swimming pool, a KFC and 3 McDonalds, 2 Essos and a Petro-Canada gas station. There is a fantastic vet clinic just around the corner. A couple dentists, 3 medical clinics, a full hospital with emergency services, several pharmacies, and a tae-kwon-do place, next to a travel agency. A strip club, several video stores and a movie theatre with questionable movie titles. An internet café, a Starbucks, Second Cup, Café Dépot and Tim Hortons. A fantastic butcher, a bakery that makes their own french bread, a cheese shop, a chocolate shop (truffles!), a couple fruit and vegetable stands and awesome pizza and poutine places. More mechanics than ought to be in the area. About as many retirement homes as mechanics. Free parking.
It might take slightly more than the 10-15 minutes in the OP, but in not much more time than that I could get to the La Ronde amusement park and the Îles St-Hélène and Notre-Dame. In slightly more time than that, I can be in downtown Montreal.
And lots, lots more.
I love where I live!
Cool! But go in with a sense of irony. This place is all about kitsch. If you are looking for model-perfect strippers, this is not the place.
2 supermarkets
2 grocery/meat markets
7 convenience stores
12 restaurants
4 bars
4 coffee/ice cream parlors
3 hardwares
4 drugstores
4 dry cleaners
1 tailor
1 shoe repair
5 barber/hair stylists
4 banks
8 churches
3 libraries
1 hospital
5 parks
2 nature reserves
Not a damned thing. The closest commercial services to my house are three gas stations. 1 just over a mile one way, 2 just over a mile a different way. There’s nothing else but office parks and such anywhere near me. The closest McD’s and CVS is about 2 miles, a fantastic Thai place and a good Puerto Rican place also about 2 miles, the closest shopping center with a grocery store, a dry cleaners, and an Applebee’s also about two miles.
The subdivision I live in is pretty much a residential island in an office space district. Part of why, while I like my county and my city, I’m not nuts about my specific location. Also, public transit here is basically worthless.
Several restaurants from 1-5 star (mexican, italian, indian, american, fusion, sushi, seafood, thai, etc.)
pacific ocean/beach
nude beach
several kayak/diving stores
surf stores
doctors offices
autism research center
scripps aquarium
golf and tennis club
hotels
ymca
starbucks
theatres
couple of grocery stores
I think I can run into quite a lot in my town by walking distance in 10-15 mins. It is why I live here.
Let’s see. Within easy walking distance (15-20 minutes), I have:
the beach
an outdoor swimming pool
the planetarium
4 large grocery stores (1 Safeway, 1 Capers, 2 IGA)
at least 4 or 5 produce stores
at least 6 Starbucks
countless other coffee places
countless restaurants, serving pretty much every cuisine I could want
at least 5 dry cleaners
1 gelato place
many clothing stores, ranging from the Sally Ann to a place where stuff on the clearance rack still costs over $100
many shoe stores
1 store specializing exclusively in rubber boots and umbrellas (it is Vancouver after all)
2 government liquor stores
1 private liquor store
2 speciality wine stores
1 gourmet cheese shop
multiple bakeries
3 good chocolate shops
Granville Island
1 public library
1 used book store
3 new book stores
many, many yoga studios
And that’s just off the top of my head. I’m sure there’s tons I’m missing. I love my neighbourhood!
2 minutes - a corner shop & hair dresser
10 minutes - a pub & public park
15 minutes - 2 more pubs & a train station
20 minutes - 2 more stations & another pub or 2
25 minutes - 2 seperate town centres with shops, restaurants, pubs, mall, etc.
A Casey’s General Store.
An O’Reilly Auto Parts store.
A union hall.
Two or three bars.
A thrift store.
A bank.