I call bullshit on that walkability thing. My current address, my last address in Manhattan, and my parents' address all got in the low 80s, but you don't need a car for anything in any of those places.
I already know what I'm gonna call her. Got a name all picked out...
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jul 25, 2007 7:46:48 am PDT #54 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sue - Jul 25, 2007 7:49:24 am PDT #55 of 10001
hip deep in pie
My old place gets a 69 (which is ridiculous, it was crazy walkable). My new place gets a 48, which is about right, it's sort of hemmed in by a busy street and a mall.
Toddson - Jul 25, 2007 7:49:30 am PDT #56 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
hmm ... my current place got an 88, but they listed some places that have closed and didn't list the Safeway under groceries, although they had the pharmacy. My mother's place - 29, and overrated. Not really walkable at all, unless you're fond of either cutting through the woods and crossing the train tracks or walking on the shoulder of the highway.
JZ - Jul 25, 2007 7:49:44 am PDT #57 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
To be fair, the site does have a "How it doesn't work" page, and it does confess that there's no way yet for them to know about businesses that have closed or calculate in highway overpasses and whether or not a given neighborhood is dangerous.
91 does seem a bit low for our neighborhood, but the lack of a nearby grocery store is a big giant PITA.
The address in the tony suburb I lived in until my parents split up got a score of 11, which isn't as low as some people's but is still pretty amazing for an upscale Northern California suburb that's only a 25-minute train ride from San Francisco.
Theodosia - Jul 25, 2007 7:50:50 am PDT #58 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Low 80s is very good, much higher than your average address, seriously. It's when you start going under 50 (or have other factors like crime) that affect the walkability that you're in trouble.
Sue - Jul 25, 2007 7:52:26 am PDT #59 of 10001
hip deep in pie
The listings for my old place are stupid. It's calling an ice cream place a bar, there are tow major grocery stores that aren't listed and they miss a park which is about 100 feet away form my old house.
shrift - Jul 25, 2007 7:55:53 am PDT #60 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have been informed that my lunch smells great, which I guess is a good thing because stinky lunches rank up there in common office pet peeves.
Of course, the person who told me this? Is the Loud Talker.
sarameg - Jul 25, 2007 7:55:56 am PDT #61 of 10001
This is why they have warning signs around trucks carrying those bullet shaped gas canisters: [link]
Holy moly.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2007 8:00:04 am PDT #62 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sheeit.
Toddson - Jul 25, 2007 8:00:07 am PDT #63 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Holy moly indeed. It occurs to me that I haven't heard about any manhole covers flying into the air, which usually happens in the summer. Maybe they got the problem fixed (ha! this is DC! they're celebrating getting the elevators at the main library fixed ... after, um, 10 years or so). Watch - it'll be on the news tonight!