https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:52:00 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-877360 Sun, 23 Jun 2013 08:25:30 +0000 BKCaribBaby 877360@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: Ditto! I actually have a slight fear of driving. I love walking and having everything at my fingertips. DH has become more of a city person since we've been together and living in the suburbs would increase our commutes in a way that he wouldn't like. We'll see what happens in the future. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-877335 Sun, 23 Jun 2013 07:40:55 +0000 sorrycharlie 877335@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Whoa how do you get a walk score??</p> <p>And ours is fairly walkable, but mostly hills, so I prefer not to. Haha. But my parents are 3 miles away, library 2 miles away (but up a seriously huge hill), 2 elem schools within a couple miles, stop and shop is a block away but who wants to walk with a ton of bags of groceries?</p> <p>Dunkin, some restaurants, McDonald's, del's and liquor stores all on the other side of our block. (It's a huge block). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-877324 Sun, 23 Jun 2013 07:32:05 +0000 MapleMoose 877324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Moved from a very walkable apartment away from main roads with sidewalks and trails in the woods to a walkable home neighborhood away from main roads and nearby trails in the woods. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-877276 Sun, 23 Jun 2013 05:31:33 +0000 nana87 877276@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>this is sort of a requirement for me--I have a driver's license but I hate driving, and haven't actually in years and years! Like, twice in the past 8 years or something, haha, and that was only because dh and I co-owned a car and he made me drive it a couple times :P we don't have a car now though, and this is something I really worry about in the future--we don't have much control over where we'll be living eventually, and I probably will need to drive :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-877267 Sun, 23 Jun 2013 04:32:33 +0000 loveisstrange 877267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would say yes. I can walk to the town centre, shopping, supermarket, restaurants, etc. The UK in general is pretty walking friendly, I think. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-877000 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 19:26:48 +0000 tinyperson 877000@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think we have a 98 walk score. We bought a car in October and have less than 1500 km on it! I don't drive, so it's great. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876939 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 18:35:15 +0000 mynoahbear 876939@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, it's why we chose our current place. Taxis are a pain to get here in Beijing and we only use a car and driver on certain days, so it's nice to have everything within waking distance of where we live. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876855 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:35:12 +0000 LovelyPlum 876855@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! It is a very big reason why we moved where we did. The park is a bit far round-trip, so sometimes we drive there. But when it is nice, we walk everywhere! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876852 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:33:58 +0000 tysonja 876852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh yeah, not walkable at all, in terms of going places. it's a suburb off the highway surrounded by trees and a river (not accessible). </p> <p>our score is 13, but the places listed that are remotely walkable are not real places.... example: there's a 'school' listed 1 km away, but it's just a tiny boarded up building that used to be a school in the 1800's :) haha... </p> <p>there's not even a park anywhere, and nowhere i could spend money (gas station, grocery store, cafe, shop etc) -- which is not a bad thing! we walk and look at houses mostly, or drive to the more urban areas! :) it's nice and quiet here, but i would love to live in a more walkable area in the future. maybe.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876840 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:19:42 +0000 bisous 876840@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, our suburban neighborhood is pretty walkable. We have a drugstore, A grocery store, and several restaurants in walking distance from our house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876839 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:19:38 +0000 runsyellowlites 876839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, not at all! Aside from not having any stores/restaurants/businesses nearby it's too dang hot to be out for very long! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876830 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:11:22 +0000 mrsjazz 876830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. Although my neighborhood doesn't have as many commercial options as some other BK neighborhoods, like Park Slope. But by virtue of being in NYC, it's very walkable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876812 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:57:36 +0000 heffalump 876812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>its walking distance to downtown, and we go there a lot. But we drive, its crazy hot and walking that far gives me migraines. A lot of the time my parents take lo and used to take our pup and walk with them and dh and I meet them there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876660 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:08:21 +0000 oliviaoblivia 876660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a 98 walk score. It's so walkable I got rid of my car. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876646 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:05:24 +0000 Mrs. Twine 876646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Where we live isn't very walkable in that you can't get to any particular "place" very easily for the most part. But our family does a ton of walking and spending time outside. It's a perk that we have miles of terrain right at home that belong to us and that we can explore on. Often we just walk around the yard from place to place (over to the barns, over to the sandbox, by the bins, in the CRP, to where the bees are), and I bet we put in a few miles just doing that. Which is good since that's about my only exercise at the moment! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876624 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:56:33 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 876624@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Very walk able. I think we get a walk score in the 90's. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876617 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:52:29 +0000 Dandelion 876617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah...lots of people walk around here, and there's a little convenience store up the road to walk to once in a while. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876597 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:32:15 +0000 HLK208 876597@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes...I just walked to the park! </p> <p>We live near Trader Joe's, three parks, golf course (access to the beach), library, another local health food store, Safeway, a Mexican restaurant, froyo, schools, Walgreens, subway and taco del mar. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876576 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:15:46 +0000 katsupgirl 876576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pretty walkable but I hate walking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876564 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:06:35 +0000 Charm54 876564@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our community isn't very walkable, in terms of amenities so we drive to get groceries, restaurants, etc. We do have really nice trails and the beach so we walk a lot on those for fun/exercise. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876563 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:04:45 +0000 Cole 876563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in a very walkable suburb, within a half mile there are two nice grocery stores (and some liquor/deli places) several decent restaurants, dry cleaners, retail places, a park etc. Changing the radius to a mile or so you add in three more parks all on the water front, a movie theater, library, more restaurants etc. Our community draws lots of young families as well as people who don't drive because it is totally possible top live day to day life here without a car. One issue is public transportation, being near "the motor city" we have awful public transit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876532 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:36:08 +0000 MediaNaranja 876532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Where we are now, definitely not. </p> <p>We are moving on Monday, and our new place is VERY walkable. Maybe a 5-minute walk from downtown? They just built a new major shopping center with restaurants, as well as a new grocery store. My hope is to use the car only rarely. The neighborhood itself is also very nice for just taking walks, so I'm excited for that! DH and I used to love taking a nice long walk after dinner, but fell out of the habit since moving to this place because there aren't any nice places to walk around. Looking forward to getting back into the habit! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876531 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:34:23 +0000 chanzi 876531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really--I live close enough to downtown that I can walk to restaurants (though it's a little far), but there are no grocery stores within walking distance, and my work is too far away for walking. However, we do have a really great bus system and we use that to get to work, and we can walk to the library. </p> <p>I loved the previous town we lived in partly because it was so walkable. I had a 10 minute walk to work and could stop by two grocery stores, the farmer's market, and the library on my way home! Plus we lived across the street from a park. We were renting though, and I doubt we'd be able to afford to buy a house so close to downtown if we ever moved back there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876512 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:21:32 +0000 sslm 876512@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in the suburbs but it's very walkable. There is a grocery store, liquor store, 2 drug stores, 2 sit down restaurants and 3-4 fast food type places all within 15 mins walking. There is also a playground and some trails very close. We are extremely lucky!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876511 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:21:15 +0000 deerylou 876511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live about a block from the ocean, and the surrounding area is pretty walkable. There's the beach, a park, the local library, farmer's market, and a few decent restaurants and cafes/coffee shops that are within walking distance. </p> <p>However, we still need to drive to our chosen markets, shopping, and some of our go-to restaurants, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876510 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:20:48 +0000 Andrea 876510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, we walk a lot. We can walk to school, parks, playgrounds, library, stores, restaurants, the beach, etc. All the basics. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876508 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:18:28 +0000 yin 876508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes and no. We have sidewalks and street lamps in out neighborhood and nearby streets. I live in a college town, which makes it easy to walk to stores and restaurants. I like to bike to Main Street, but walking there with LO would be too much work. So while I can walk to most places nearby, it is easier to travel by car with LO. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876484 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:55:42 +0000 Pepper 876484@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live in a suburban neighborhood with lots of sidewalks for running/walking, but I'm not within walking distance of any stores or restaurants. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876480 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:54:25 +0000 autumnlove 876480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walkable-community-1#post-876473 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:51:51 +0000 MaisyMay 876473@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's fairly walkable. There are restaurants and shopping, plus entertainment and playgrounds all within a 15-20 minute walk. We don't walk a lot though because we commute 30 minutes by car for work. </p>