82, though walking entails with it the desire, or at least willingness, to cross six-lane streets in any direction, presumably across the lights, which have been designed by sadists. It is possible to walk – I do it a lot, more so now that my car’s busted – but I think most people drive. They also list the local junior high school as being a “public library” although they closed public access to it ten years ago. The drive-through only Pizza Hut outlet is listed as a “restaurant” and the Orange Julius as a “bar”, somehow – but I’d say it’s doing about as well as you can, for being completely (?) automated.
Now I’m going to go do my grocery shopping. You know, uh, at the Diamond Shamrock.
55 which is a meaningless number. I’m not walking to the grocery store and everything else is on the way to somewhere else. I have an electric bus line half a block from my house but I don’t know where I would ride it to.
My home comes in at 29, but it really should be much lower.
The closest “grocery store” is a 7-11, 1.92 miles away, but the closest actual grocery store is really 3.08 miles away. Basically anything you might want other than a hardware store or Taco Bell is three miles away.
OTOH, it’s about 200 yards to the closest “Place to get shot at if you’re lost and wander in.” It’s not a bad neighborhood - the US military just takes a dim view of people getting onto their base where weapons and materiel are stored.
My office scores at 100, but then again, some things got mis-categorized. They think the newpaper office is a library. No biggie though - the main library is about four blocks away.
I own two houses. The one in Ohio scores 60, which is reasonably good for a suburban house. (I chose the area, because it’s reasonably close to where I work). The one in Australia scores 75, which is probably right for an inner suburb in a provincial city.
I got a 23. Everything was measured in miles except for the cafe, the bar, and they’re considering city hall (two houses south of me) to be a park. For anything else, I have to leave town.
I was shocked that LL’s bar and Marilyn’s cafe were even listed!
Mine is 98/100. It’s a bit misleading, for all the reasons touched on upthread, plus even if you can walk somewhere in the middle of a Texas summer, would you really want to? (Also plus, riding a bike is darn near suicidal!)
Still, I’m absurdly proud of finding perhaps the one area in Dallas that could possibly score this high! I really love were I live
Where I live now gets a 43, and that’s without taking into account that most of the things within walking distance are up a huge fuck-off hill. I don’t have a car.
I’m moving in a few months, and my new place gets a 42, but at least there’s a bus system there.
Yeah, I think that’s why Phoenix isn’t more of a walking city. I doubt many people who live within the limits of one of America’s largest cities would score as low as I did, but people complain about walking from their front door to their car when it’s 119 degrees outside. No one’s going to walk to the store in that kind of weather. I lived LITERALLY across the street from my office for awhile, and I drove to work. And it wasn’t because I’m lazy.
It shows a Chinese take-out place three houses down from me that has never existed, but that would be pretty convenient if it did. The closest supermarket is a 20 minutes walk from here, but there is an Indian grocery store about 5 minutes away. My commute to work is about 7+ miles and 22 minutes by car, and would be over an hour using an NJTransit bus (which stops very close to my house, but goes no where near my office). I could actually commute to Philly (55 miles) in about 1.5 hours using NJTransit rail (only a 5 minute walk from home) or Atlantic City in 20 minutes, but everyone has a car here if they can afford it.
I guess public transit doesn’t count for an area’s walk score, but who cares.
It gave me a ‘walk’ score of 48. Technically though that would have to be a ‘run faster than the speed of sound’ score, because to get to any of them in that distance I would have to go across an interstate that is 5 lanes in each direction.
I got a 62. Then, scrolling around the website, they say the most walkable neighborhood in Memphis is Midtown with a 53. I think there’s still a bit more work to be done.
Which does make sense, given that all of the basics are nearby, but I can’t walk to nightlife or major shopping (though I really can live without these most of time). However, it’s a really easy walk to good public transit.
The place I’m moving to, on the other side of the city, gets an 89.
Don’t have a car, and I only just signed up for Zipcar so I can furnish the new place without being charged an arm and a leg for furniture delivery.
ETA: Of course, I’m paying $1100/month for a very basic one bedroom.
