what's your walkscore?

how accurately*

not sure how many non-american countries are included in their data, but I tried some big euro and canadian cities and they seem to be there

98! (rounded to 100 for voting purposes)

seems accurate. that's why i moved here. i don't own a car and don't want to own a car, so i live close enough to walk to the metro, a few blocks away from the grocery store, entertainment/food nearby, etc.

mine used to be 94 at my old apt, now it's 85 -- still okay!

45. There's stuff you can walk to here, but not much that you'd want to walk to.

My current locale is a 2. At the end of the week I'm moving to a 58, which seems a tad low (maybe by 10 points or so?).

The 2 is actually a bit high if you ask me.

My last five addresses have been above 80. My license expired in '03, and I haven't drive a car in ten years, although my wife still has to for work. Do not miss it.

23, rounded to 25 for voting purposes. The only place I can imagine going where I would walk would be the playground across the street, the beaches, and maybe the elementary school, if I had some spare time on my hands.

40. seems about right. at least i have a pizza place just next door.

they should give bonus points for that

92, which seems low if anything

5

pretty accurate, i live in an apt complex on a narrow road w/ a 50 mph speed limit

88

wonder how the score is computed - it's comparative, right, to all addresses in your area. but how big do they define area?

like if you lived in a place with only one pizza place and nothing else, and you lived next to the pizza place, you should get 100 right, because you are closer to the pizza place than everybody else who lives there

oh okay http://www.walkscore.com/methodology.shtml

96, still have no idea what this means. i walk everywhere, i don't mind walking 4 miles for something though. is it to measure accessibility or more people's laziness. I really don't want to live on a block that has a police department, fire station, hospital, etc.

maybe if there were 9 pizza places arranged in a circle and you lived in the middle of that circle you would get a 100

100. Totally accurate. /bragging

85, which seems about right.

My in-laws' house gets a zero, which I think is rather impressive.

yeah, so their critical distance is .25 miles. It takes me about 4 minutes to walk .25 miles and I routinely walk 40-45 minutes for services/amenities/commute etc.

they should allow the metric to be a user-defined, rather than their predefined "THIS IS THE DISTANCE THAT WE FEEL IS TRUE CONVENIENCE".

the site is timing out for me, but last time i checked it was about 85. it feels higher though; it's a very walkable part of town.

i agree that it would be nice to let the user adjust the score a little bit by defining a comfortable walking distance, but the value of having a uniform metric is that different people can compare their walk scores (like in this thread) with consistency.

my parents' place (where i grew up) gets like a 96!

the place where I grew up gets an 88. I remember walking to the KFC for some delicious chicken strips as a kid when I was left home alone. that walk seemed like it took a long time as a kid!

hundo ftw

As mentioned in the other thread, I score a 75, but depending on what you consider "walking distance" -- e.g., less than 2 miles? -- I can walk easily to two movie theaters, two grocery stores (including a Whole Foods), a Wal Mart, a Target, a Macy's, several major bus lines that go to two different rail stations (both within 10 minutes), a library branch, countless local restaurants (not chains), etc.

The house where I grew up gets a zero, ha — no surprise there

the key thing about walking to a grocery store though is walking back with heavy grocery bags in both arms, and then to have the bags break and everything spill out on the pavement a la Home Alone

One of these = essential for non-car living.

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my first attempt at entering my location put me a mile further out of town, somewhere with no shops within that mile

weirdly, when I got my real location (right opposite a row of shops with 3 small/medium supermarkets, restaurants, cafés; city centre is less than 2 miles away and so walkable, though I usually bus, as buses are p. frequent) my score went DOWN by 5, to 54, which seems a bit low

used to live in a depressing transport-less smalltown with hardly any shops which actually gets a higher score (67), which is plain crazy

lol, if you look at the "entertainment" category for said smalltown, the top 3 are

Telephone Sockets Ltd 5.69 miles
Aerials and Satellites 9.69 miles
___ Handyman Services 9.86 miles

woo yeah, that's some good entertainment, walking 6 miles to a company that sells telephone sockets, or 10 miles to some TV repair companies

20, seems very low. If I move a mile I'd be an 80.

this doesn't have a ton of the stuff that's around me and it hangs when i try to add stuff so boo

98. About right, seeing as I live in the centre of town and am surrounded by shops and pubs.

seems slightly suboptimal if it uses the same radius for all the different categories of stuff - I definitely like to live within 0.25 miles of a grocery shop for carrying purposes or emergency single-item dashes, but the nearest cinema being 1.5 miles away also seems perfectly fine to me, wouldn't want to live right opposite one thanks

anyway there's lots of stuff near me it doesn't count (2 out of 3 supermarkets opposite, 2 out of 3 coffee shops opposite) or counts wrongly (office HQ of a supermarket chain shows up as "groceries" but isn't a retail unit) but you need a Facebook login to correct it and, eh, fuck it

68

which seems about right

98

51, points given because there is a Dixie Pig .29 miles away.

(I would never walk to the DIxie Pig. How would I walk back?)

good point phil! but in my head grocery carts = old ladies :/

based on the scores of previous places i've lived, i'm not too sure about the algorithm

Highest ranking I've had was when I lived in the dorm at Mizzou -- 92.
Hood I lived in with 1217 bus lines -- 78.
Rural lot where I grew up -- 2.

80, hoboken NJ

dayo, my wife and I lived in Lakewood, a relatively near-in suburb of Cleveland, for a few years without a car, and one of those carts allowed us to do like two weeks of shopping at a time so we didn't have to stop on the way home on the bus every night. Love those things. Now I use bike bags, and don't even have to wait for a bus.

that's awesome! I am still working on the 'planning to buy enough groceries to last two weeks' part for my own life though :/

It gave me a 35 but it should be a lot lower because it's not taking hills into consideration. The details are really ridiculous though. The restaurant it lists is actually a coffee shop and then for coffee it lists something that's miles away. Same with bars & entertainment. And I can't see why they would include banking. Who goes to a bank anymore?

I think once you're under 40 it almost doesn't matter. has anyone here lived in a <50 without a car, as an adult?

hills should def be a factor and another thing that's hard to measure is the type of street. someone could live .25 miles from a suburban strip mall, but would have to cross an 8-lane road to get there.

my sister's place in the city (86) rates lower than my other sister in the 'burbs (94)

what burb is #2?

elmhurst

looking at the greater chicago map, it seems like there's a very walkable center of elmhurst surrounding the train station. presumably she lives on that? however that 94 has to be put in perspective, cause she's surrounded by <50

she drives lol~25mi to work one way

but powers her car with her own shit and compost

92

My closest entertainment option is listed as the Living Torah Museum, which I admittedly have never been to.

whys your cocksore?

I would totally visit the Living Torah Museum!

Childhood home ranks 35, "car-dependent", which is at least 20 points too high for a burb where you were stuck with only your neighbors for entertainment unless you were a strong bicyclist. Some of the cited nearby parks and shopping hadn't been built yet. I remember as a kid sometimes one of us would arrange a 20-minute group bike ride to the closest shopping center, where we'd hang out all day reading comic books at the apothecary, bowling, pinball/arcade games, eating pizza & ice cream, and we had a good time. Ah, the days when a trip to the strip mall passed for fun....

Place I lived 10 yrs ago still "car-dependent" at 46 although there's a grocery store, bakery, dry cleaner, hair salon in the building, and 5 minute walk to subway stop. Not best place for carlessness but certainly doable and I knew several without cars there. Where I am now seems about 50% have a car, large transient population.

grocery store in the building and it's 46? that must be off

kind of want to start a 0 club

77

the house i grew up in in iowa? 78, lol

kind of want to start a 0 club

But where would you meet?

dunno, but we're all driving there

gigantic empty parking lot

it'll be like tailgating without a football game

We're not talking about klan meetings again, are we?

shh

I always enjoyed the tailgating more than the actual game anyway....

I bet you were a bird of paradise at Burning Man this year.

nope - totally not my scene....

our neighborhood is a 50 which is kind of bullshit. still, i dont walk it. i spent 32 years of my life walking and/or on public transportation so taking a walk is work for me not a pleasant stroll.

i got a 95, which is fairly accurate. It's not as commercial an area as I used to live in, but it's still got a lot of restaurants, shopping, parks etc within a short walking distance. i live <1 block from the train

66 - not that low, but also not really reflective of the resources/businesses conveniently located ALL around my joint. I think it is b/c everything seems to be around .5 miles away, rather than .25

yeah i got a 60 and was surprised - 5 busroutes and all the other amenities within half a mile.

seems like dudes who put this together define walking as can fall out of my door and into a cheese shop instead

http://images.wikia.com/familyguy/images/b/b8/Hickory_Farms.jpg

it's always gonna be arbitrary but I think it's safe to say that *most people* won't walk to someplace .5 miles+ on the reg, not that it's not feasible

95

lazy MFs iirc

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Until I moved to the Chicago, it would never occur to me to walk more than a couple of blocks. In college I used drove the 4 to 5 blocks from my house to class.
I mean it would occur to me, but only in the sense walking specifically for exercise or as a novelty on a nice day.

When my car was broken down for a while, I would usually get co-workers to give me a lift to work 1 mile away.

Ugh - work was a restaurant where business lunchers regularly pissed and moaned that they couldn't find parking. We were in the fucking center of the business district! That means: a) no parking lot and b) you can park at the garage 3 blocks away. But like with me, to those whiners, 3 blocks was unequivocally not reasonable walking distance, at least not under the circumstances.

For some people, three blocks isn't a reasonable walking distance for good reason--they're disabled, old, very out of shape, etc.

88, which seems low since i p much can walk to anything

80

recently moved from a 92 to a 78. Prefer it here as the quality of walkable destinations is far higher.

For some people, three blocks isn't a reasonable walking distance for good reason--they're disabled, old, very out of shape, etc.

Certainly true, and I would not gripe about visibly disabled people griping about lack of parking. I'm just saying that it is absurd to expect a downtown business to have a parking lot like you'd find at a strip mall on the edge of town.

And it was pretty fucking ridiculous for me to drive 4 - 5 blocks to class! Esp since I had to feed a parking meter.

yeah i got a 60 and was surprised - 5 busroutes and all the other amenities within half a mile.

this occurred to me as well and then I remembered that riding a bus is not walking

Non visibly disabled persons can gripe about parking too.

people who are too old or disabled to drive can bitch about more than parking...

(or poor)

None of those statements refute what I am getting at, which is clearly stated.

I agree!

My statement has no concerns with what you clearly stated you were getting at.

basically I just feel more for old people who have *completely lost mobility* than those who have to take a bad parking spot. this is happening more and more as the boomers age.

91-not sure what I think of that.

95

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