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.
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.
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.
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.
This is why they have warning signs around trucks carrying those bullet shaped gas canisters: [link]
Holy moly.
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!
Low 80s is very good, much higher than your average address, seriously.
Well, yeah, but Google apparently doesn't know about the Star Market (or whatever they're calling themselves these days) five minutes from my parents' house.
Gas explosions in Dallas on the news. With NYC, SF and now this I worry.
Eep. Hadn't made that connection, but now? APOCALYPSE!
Guess they don't count high probability of getting mugged or knifed while you walk against the score, either.
We got a 38, probably because they also don't consider the ease (or not) of crossing streets.