how does your home town measure up?

Larrycoug wrote:

Best attraction in Philly is the Franklin Institute.

Yep--love the Franklin Institute! We have an annual pass.

do you walk to the Franklin Institute?

ABYUFAN wrote:

SpiffCoug wrote:
Best attraction in Philly is the Franklin Institute.

Yep--love the Franklin Institute! We have an annual pass.

do you walk to the Franklin Institute?

yes--from where ever i find parking.



Are you making fun of my emphasis on walk-ability? That's fair, I really didn't understand the benefits before living in that kind of community and probably would do the same thing.

Larrycoug wrote:

Larrycoug wrote:

Best attraction in Philly is the Franklin Institute.

Yep--love the Franklin Institute! We have an annual pass.

do you walk to the Franklin Institute?

yes--from where ever i find parking.



Are you making fun of my emphasis on walk-ability? That's fair, I really didn't understand the benefits before living in that kind of community and probably would do the same thing.

Yes I was making fun of your emphasis on "walkability" because even though I understand the theoritcal benefits of "walkability" I think that it's like car makers touting thier wheel size. it's a made-up statistic that is less than useful in real life.

ABYUFAN wrote:

ABYUFAN wrote:

SpiffCoug wrote:
Best attraction in Philly is the Franklin Institute.

Yep--love the Franklin Institute! We have an annual pass.

do you walk to the Franklin Institute?

yes--from where ever i find parking.



Are you making fun of my emphasis on walk-ability? That's fair, I really didn't understand the benefits before living in that kind of community and probably would do the same thing.

Yes I was making fun of your emphasis on "walkability" because even though I understand the theoritcal benefits of "walkability" I think that it's like car makers touting thier wheel size. it's a made-up statistic that is less than useful in real life.

I don't know, I think being able to grab my three little ones and walk less than a quarter mile to lunch, the post office and the park all the while bumping into and chit chatting with neighborhood friends and acquaintances is useful in real life.



Simply put I can be to a myriad of places (theater, elementary school, auto part store and a number of other shops and restaurants) with my kids before others can get their kids loaded into their car seats. Time is useful in the real life, right?

I was walking my kids to Lowes the other day...



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ABYUFAN wrote:
I was walking my kids to Lowes the other day...



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I'm confused... You live 1 to 3 miles away from neighbors but walking distance to a Lowes? And, if walkability isn't useful in real life, why did you walk to Lowes?

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Larrycoug wrote:

I was walking my kids to Lowes the other day...



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I'm confused... You live 1 to 3 miles away from neighbors but walking distance to a Lowes? And, if walkability isn't useful in real life, why did you walk to Lowes?

I was being flippant... obviously if one could walk to Lowes, one wouldn't do it, because one never buys something at Lowes that one could walk home.... Also, I don't live 1 to 3 miles from my neighbors house (although my earlier post could be read that way) I live one to three miles from church, the grocery store, my kids' school...etc... I live within 6 feet of my neighbors yard (like everyone else in California)





Oh, and I'm going to call "not so fast" on being able to walk your kids to the store before someone else can load their kids in the car... you cannot even walk to your neighbors house and back before one puts their kids in car seats - it's a 30 second job on a bad day...

ABYUFAN wrote:

ABYUFAN wrote:
I was walking my kids to Lowes the other day...



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I'm confused... You live 1 to 3 miles away from neighbors but walking distance to a Lowes? And, if walkability isn't useful in real life, why did you walk to Lowes?

I was being flippant... obviously if one could walk to Lowes, one wouldn't do it, because one never buys something at Lowes that one could walk home.... Also, I don't live 1 to 3 miles from my neighbors house (although my earlier post could be read that way) I live one to three miles from church, the grocery store, my kids' school...etc... I live within 6 feet of my neighbors yard (like everyone else in California)





Oh, and I'm going to call "not so fast" on being able to walk your kids to the store before someone else can load their kids in the car... you cannot even walk to your neighbors house and back before one puts their kids in car seats - it's a 30 second job on a bad day...

30 seconds to get you and 3 kids (baby, 2 and 4 year old) buckled into a car and driving? Not even close to possible. Just getting a baby buckled takes 20-30 seconds (look up car seat video). And, i'm literally 100 yards from two restaurants and number of shops. Even at a slow walk I can get there in slightly over a minute.

ABYUFAN wrote:

ABYUFAN wrote:
I was walking my kids to Lowes the other day...



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I'm confused... You live 1 to 3 miles away from neighbors but walking distance to a Lowes? And, if walkability isn't useful in real life, why did you walk to Lowes?

I was being flippant... obviously if one could walk to Lowes, one wouldn't do it, because one never buys something at Lowes that one could walk home.... Also, I don't live 1 to 3 miles from my neighbors house (although my earlier post could be read that way) I live one to three miles from church, the grocery store, my kids' school...etc... I live within 6 feet of my neighbors yard (like everyone else in California)\

Oh, and I've had plenty trips to Lowes to pick up small things. Costco would be a better example.

Larrycoug wrote:
And, i'm literally 100 yards from two restaurants and number of shops. Even at a slow walk I can get there in slightly over a minute.

I guess this gets back to my origonal point, you couldn't pay me enough to live within 100 yards of two restaurants and a number of shops. I prefer to go to them, rather than all of their customers coming to my front yard.

ABYUFAN wrote:

And, i'm literally 100 yards from two restaurants and number of shops. Even at a slow walk I can get there in slightly over a minute.

I guess this gets back to my origonal point, you couldn't pay me enough to live within 100 yards of two restaurants and a number of shops. I prefer to go to them, rather than all of their customers coming to my front yard.

To each his own I suppose. I'll swap good restaurants and shops for living in a densely populated neighborhood any day. And, since all the nearby businesses cater to a middle to upper class clientele I don't have any issue with folks on my front lawn.

Larrycoug wrote:

Larrycoug wrote:
And, i'm literally 100 yards from two restaurants and number of shops. Even at a slow walk I can get there in slightly over a minute.

I guess this gets back to my origonal point, you couldn't pay me enough to live within 100 yards of two restaurants and a number of shops. I prefer to go to them, rather than all of their customers coming to my front yard.

To each his own I suppose. I'll swap good restaurants and shops for living in a densely populated neighborhood any day. And, since all the nearby business cater to an middle to upper class clientele I don't have any issue with folks on my front lawn.

I'm willing to bet that your neighborhood is more densly populated than mine is...

ABYUFAN wrote:

ABYUFAN wrote:

And, i'm literally 100 yards from two restaurants and number of shops. Even at a slow walk I can get there in slightly over a minute.

I guess this gets back to my origonal point, you couldn't pay me enough to live within 100 yards of two restaurants and a number of shops. I prefer to go to them, rather than all of their customers coming to my front yard.

To each his own I suppose. I'll swap good restaurants and shops for living in a densely populated neighborhood any day. And, since all the nearby business cater to an middle to upper class clientele I don't have any issue with folks on my front lawn.

I'm willing to bet that your neighborhood is more densly populated than mine is...

I doubt it--if you're 6 feet from your neighbor. There are 2,000 folks in my town and we're surrounded by farmland.

Larrycoug wrote:

Larrycoug wrote:

Larrycoug wrote:
And, i'm literally 100 yards from two restaurants and number of shops. Even at a slow walk I can get there in slightly over a minute.

I guess this gets back to my origonal point, you couldn't pay me enough to live within 100 yards of two restaurants and a number of shops. I prefer to go to them, rather than all of their customers coming to my front yard.

To each his own I suppose. I'll swap good restaurants and shops for living in a densely populated neighborhood any day. And, since all the nearby business cater to an middle to upper class clientele I don't have any issue with folks on my front lawn.

I'm willing to bet that your neighborhood is more densly populated than mine is...

I doubt it--if you're 6 feet from your neighbor. There are 2,000 folks in my town and we're surrounded by farmland.

In the 58 square miles surround my town, there are 17,000 people. So less than 300 people per square mile. You?

Larrycoug wrote:

Larrycoug wrote:

Larrycoug wrote:
And, i'm literally 100 yards from two restaurants and number of shops. Even at a slow walk I can get there in slightly over a minute.

I guess this gets back to my origonal point, you couldn't pay me enough to live within 100 yards of two restaurants and a number of shops. I prefer to go to them, rather than all of their customers coming to my front yard.

To each his own I suppose. I'll swap good restaurants and shops for living in a densely populated neighborhood any day. And, since all the nearby business cater to an middle to upper class clientele I don't have any issue with folks on my front lawn.

I'm willing to bet that your neighborhood is more densly populated than mine is...

I doubt it--if you're 6 feet from your neighbor. There are 2,000 folks in my town and we're surrounded by farmland.

You have 2,000 people in ONE square mile... we're nowhere near that. My house is 6 feet from my property line to the east and west, but looking at one square mile around my house we're nowhere near 2,000 people.

I notice from the website that there is no LDS church in your borough. We occasionally ride our bikes to church, it's less than one mile from my house, but I'm assuming that you don't walk to church. I'm also willing to bet that you attend church more frequently than you eat at a restaurant.

ABYUFAN wrote:

ABYUFAN wrote:

ABYUFAN wrote:

And, i'm literally 100 yards from two restaurants and number of shops. Even at a slow walk I can get there in slightly over a minute.

I guess this gets back to my origonal point, you couldn't pay me enough to live within 100 yards of two restaurants and a number of shops. I prefer to go to them, rather than all of their customers coming to my front yard.

To each his own I suppose. I'll swap good restaurants and shops for living in a densely populated neighborhood any day. And, since all the nearby business cater to an middle to upper class clientele I don't have any issue with folks on my front lawn.

I'm willing to bet that your neighborhood is more densly populated than mine is...

I doubt it--if you're 6 feet from your neighbor. There are 2,000 folks in my town and we're surrounded by farmland.

You have 2,000 people in ONE square mile... we're nowhere near that. My house is 6 feet from my property line to the east and west, but looking at one square mile around my house we're nowhere near 2,000 people.

Are you sure? Only takes a couple of streets with houses 6 feet a part to get you to 2 k.

ABYUFAN wrote:
I notice from the website that there is no LDS church in your borough. We occasionally ride our bikes to church, it's less than one mile from my house, but I'm assuming that you don't walk to church. I'm also willing to bet that you attend church more frequently than you eat at a restaurant.

We patronize one of the restaurants probably every other day on average, though it might just be grabbing a slice of pizza, ice cream cone on walk home from school, or hot chocolate and bacon egg and cheese panini for breakfast on saturday.



Once our newest neighbor opens later this spring--with its fresh fresh baked bread, locally grown produce, and meat raised and butchered less than 2 miles from where I will consume it--we will be walking there a ton as well.



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To each his own though. We just love it, but realize its not for everyone.

Larrycoug wrote:

I notice from the website that there is no LDS church in your borough. We occasionally ride our bikes to church, it's less than one mile from my house, but I'm assuming that you don't walk to church. I'm also willing to bet that you attend church more frequently than you eat at a restaurant.

We patronize one of the restaurants probably every other day on average, though it might just be grabbing a slice of pizza, ice cream cone on walk home from school, or hot chocolate and bacon egg and cheese panini for breakfast on saturday.



Once our newest neighbor opens later this spring--with its fresh fresh baked bread, locally grown produce, and meat raised and butchered less than 2 miles from where I will consume it--we will be walking there a ton as well.



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To each his own though. We just love it, but realize its not for everyone.

Wow!!! Do you know how much money you are spending on eating out?? That's easily a car payment AND gas! You are right, to each his own....