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I live in Chicago. It's a great walking city with the neighborhoods. I live in a neighborhood northwest of downtown. We've got two squares to walk around as well as nearby parks. I love walking cities. I can't imagine moving to the burbs and driving everywhere.

i love walking cities! i live in LA and drive everywhere...i used to live in nyc and walked everywhere, and was way way healthier than i am now. sf was a happy medium, i could walk some places but a car came in handy now and then.

Nope. We live about 30 minutes outside our large 'feeder' city, and it's driving everywhere. We go for walks for fun, but we certainly never just walk to get groceries or anything like that. Even in our small town, it would take me over 30 minutes to walk to the nearest grocery store. We live in a very car central area, and there is little to no public transit.

No. I live in a very un-pedestrian friendly city/suburb. No one really walks in Dallas (unless you live in Addison/Uptown, which we do not). It isn't really that safe to do so.

We are a driving city, but I am walking distance to a couple of things. I can't walk much anyway though, gives me migraines.

Currently, we live in a VERY rural area (our house is in the middle of 3 fields!). But before we moved here, our last city was very spread out and even it was fairly small to be considered a "city." Its hard for me to imagine not needing a car for everyday things.

I grew up in the burbs but have lived in walking cities every since and I wouldn't move back. I can walk everywhere I need to go. In fact I sold my car after realizing I hadn't purchased a tank of gas in eight months! We still have DH's car, but probably only use it once a month to visit his mom out of town.

I love the fact that Manchester is both a walking and driving city. We can walk to our local grocery store and to a metro stop, which can take us lots of places. If you drive into the city centre, you can park and walk all around really easily too.
It was an adjustment coming from Dallas where no one would consider walking- even if it was a short distance!

I live in the burbs but there are still lots of things within walking distance. You can do all the basic things like grocery store, drugstore, dry cleaner, gym, library, etc. We can walk to our main street in 10 minutes. Granted, I used to live in NYC so there were millions of things to walk to and this isn't the case anymore but I think it's nice that we can still walk to everything that is around.

I live in a walking city that's also drivable. I walk everywhere in the summer, drive everywhere in the winter. When I lived in NYC, I walked a ton and loved it!

I don't! Would love to though

The small city we live in is pretty walking or public transit unfriendly. There are pretty much no residential buildings downtown, so unless you live in one of the dodgy downtown adjacent buildings/streets you would end up driving pretty much everywhere.

I live in a walking city, but I find NYC to be way too crowded to really enjoy the walk. Often, time I feel like I'm crowd surfing than walking.

No, not at all. Like Mrs. YoYo, people are not used to pedestrians and the sidewalk access is limited. Also, the city is VERY sprawled, so you definitely would not just walk to the store (it'd take you 4 hours!

OH, and the little minor fact that it's deathly cold outside a lot. (Our weather advisory today is for "Extreme Cold," and says something like "if you expose your skin, you will get frostbite and be at risk for hypothermia" -- it's -24F.) So the weather does not play nice for walking, either.

In the summer, we do have some walking paths (the city has made great improvements in that area). We just have to wait for the river level to drop after the melt, because much of the paths are behind the dikes (and thus, under water until June or so).

I am in NYC too and I love love love that I can walk anywhere, anytime!