Neighborhood Walkability Debate

This is exactly the kind of neighborhood (suburb?) I live in. I can walk/drive/bicycle to the nearby grocery/pub/cleaners. The city is ~1/2 hour drive though.

You could get something like this if there is good public transport between points. Like the place where I am staying now, its relatively less crowded than the inner cities. I can walk and get any essential items like milk or meat. If I need something that I cant get, just take a bus and shop in the city. Most of the time, my daily needs are met near my home itself

thanks this explains so much. was a bit stunned that all shoping possibilities are so far away from the homes

Yes, they do :) My nearest shopping area (starbucks/grocery store/dry cleaner) is 7 miles away and the nearest "city" with a Target, fast food and a small mall is a 45 minute drive.

Not everyone lives in a city. I don't want to spend hours walking to the nearest equivalent of a konbini and back.

I live in a small suburban city and I can walk to:* The library (5 minutes)* A supermarket (8 minutes)* A dozen restaurants (7-15 minutes; mostly local restaurants + 2 fast food chains)* Two liquor stores* A drug store (12 minutes)* A coworking space (15 minutes)* Several antique stores (12-15 minutes)* (Almost forgot) Walmart (10 minutes)* Two barbers (8-12 minutes)* At least three major bus linesAnd if I get on a bike, I can go across the entire town in 20 minu

Towns tend to be this way, not so much cities. I live in a single family neighborhood in a large city and it’s both walkable and drivable. It’s not great driving beyond a 1-2 mile radius, but I don’t need to go that far more than once a week. My kids’ schools are all walkable distances, 30 minutes tops, or a 5 minute drive. Same for the gym, restaurants, bars, the grocery stores, etc.

It doesn't have to be walking distance to be shorter than where people are currently driving from!!

There's a huge spectrum between dense city center and suburbia; at present, I do consider my area to be "walkable", but it's not anywhere close to a dense city and there sure aren't "corporate HQs" anywhere nearby.I do value having several gyms and restaurants (and friends) within just a short bike ride from my current house; and since one of the gyms I visit regularly is in the shopping mall, if I have an interest to cook something specific, I can buy whate

My current home is 2 miles from the nearest retail district, but I previously lived just under a mile from 90% of the places I shopped. Because of the road layouts, it was easier to drive for some things than walk.