https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:35:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-54584 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:14:13 +0000 EAC18 54584@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am in NYC too and I love love love that I can walk anywhere, anytime! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-54563 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:40:45 +0000 mrskc 54563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No way. You drive everywhere in my city. The only people I see walking places are bums &amp; people walking to a bus stop. DH and I do take walks around the neighborhood and to a local park. I went to college in a walking city and I miss it so much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-54517 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:52:35 +0000 LazyLightning 54517@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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! </p> <p>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. </p> <p>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). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53434 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:14:24 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 53434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live in quite possibly the least walking friendly place known to man. I literally have to drive two minutes to work because it's too dangerous to walk. There are hardly any sidewalks and people are not used to seeing pedestrians. I have to drive Baby Y somewhere to take a walk, which really blows. I dream of. The day when I can go for a walk out my door again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53397 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:18:45 +0000 Clementine 53397@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53391 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:13:38 +0000 pastemoo 53391@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Grew up in SF--loved it. Also lived in St Louis--I biked everywhere and loved it. Lived in Honolulu and walked and bussed everywhere.<br /> Now I live in northern VA and it BLOWS. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53371 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:44:43 +0000 MsMini 53371@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53351 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:17:21 +0000 mynoahbear 53351@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live in a walking city. I hate driving so it works out great. Plus the train system here is amazing, so places you can't walk to, is easily accessible by train or subway. Even when we lived in the states, we lived in a walking city. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53349 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:17:03 +0000 chopsuey 53349@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't! Would love to though :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53347 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:12:59 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 53347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No I don't. I would love to live in an area that I could walk almost everywhere. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53329 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:51:41 +0000 betsyboop 53329@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53320 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:39:36 +0000 tejbee 53320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up in a walking city and loved it. I walked to work when I was in high school and could walk to the grocery store or convenience store easily, or even walk to the historic downtown from my parent's house. It was wonderful. I rode the local trolley to school in middle school instead of a school bus.</p> <p>I live in a different state now, and am biking distance from the grocery store and some other places, but when we buy a house (hopefully in the next several months) it will be further away and probably not walking/biking distance from anything. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53299 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:00:13 +0000 Andrea 53299@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53297 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:54:29 +0000 Penny Lane 53297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to... It was amazing. I've never owned a car before in my life.</p> <p>Now we've moved to CO and I'm going to need to start thinking about getting my license! Ugggh.</p> <p>I'm definitely a walker! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53283 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:30:04 +0000 MegWag 53283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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.<br /> It was an adjustment coming from Dallas where no one would consider walking- even if it was a short distance! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53259 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:20:10 +0000 twodoghouse 53259@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have to drive everywhere. There's public transportation but it's pretty shady and doesn't come up to the north side where we live. Walking is definitely out of the question. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53207 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:57:56 +0000 oliviaoblivia 53207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53205 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:56:22 +0000 BSB 53205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live near a Seattle, which I think is considered a walking city. I did grow up in a suburb so I prefer to drive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53200 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:48:26 +0000 lilteacherbee 53200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53195 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:36:41 +0000 Rubies 53195@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live in a driving city but wish I could walk to places... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53190 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:28:09 +0000 heffalump 53190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53175 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:09:33 +0000 mediagirl 53175@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live in a very un-pedestrian friendly suburb like @highwire. Everything is so spread out, it's impossible to walk to somewhere to even get a cup of coffee or a bag of groceries. I miss cities, but I love my suburb and backyard. It's give and take, I guess. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53173 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:56:29 +0000 DillonLion 53173@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53157 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:36:53 +0000 MrsBrewer 53157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't live in a walking city at all. I am surrounded by farms actually :-) I have never lived in a walking city ever, and most likely will never in my life either. I'm ok with that though, I love where I live! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53152 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:34:21 +0000 prettylizy 53152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53150 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:31:09 +0000 looch 53150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but it is very rural. I prefer a big city type walking city, like NYC, esp. for raising children. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53148 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:27:20 +0000 Sha 53148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53147 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:26:54 +0000 Boogs 53147@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't, but luckily most things are a pretty short car ride away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53146 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:24:56 +0000 carrieknitscake 53146@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-in-a-walking-city#post-53139 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:19:06 +0000 Mrs. Bee 53139@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I grew up in Los Angeles which is pretty much a big suburb. You have to drive everywhere. Even though we lived 2 blocks from the market, we almost always drove (walking doesn't even occur to you).</p> <p>Now that I live in New York and am carless, I walk everywhere. I love that I know so many local shop owners and neighbors. I think that a walking city is great for small children because everything -- playgrounds, classes, parks museums, playspaces, playdates... are all just a short walk away. But I would love to have more space when our kids are older (and a car.. I love driving!).</p> <p>Do you live in a walking city? Do you prefer walking cities or driving cities? </p>