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Find out how walk friendly your neighborhood is by checking your Walk Score

My neighborhood has a score of 40 . . . . you?

Walk score was 32 out of 100. Not that we do much walking when its 110+ degrees!

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Well, I just get to walk to Wrigley Field, the lake, etc. Sometimes it gets hot here. This week mid-90s, but it for sure IS NOT dry heat. The humidity has been rough.

I got a 77. Must be flat midwest land that gets a higher read.

Yeah I just tried Munich, Germany which is tailor made for pedestrian traffic and it got a 66. No way anywhere in the midwest beats Munich. They need to perfect their system.

My address scored an 88.

Now, the flaw I see in my score is that it does not take into affect that I live 1.5 blocks away from a train stop that that heads right into the Loop (Chicago). That alone is the biggest walking benefit I have and cuts down on my car use.

That is a cool site but they don't count how safe the place is. I put in a slum prop. I had some years ago when I first started investing and got a 55. This place in flint michigan believe me is no 55. Unless it's 55% chance you are jumped, offered drugs or sollicited by a hooker.

Talking to a chick might feel good, but the burning sensation that does not go away without the antibiotics or worse is what concerns me!

My neighbourhood gets a 29. I'm not sure that I agree though - it's a 15 minute walk to the doctors, chemists, and a small supermarket. There's a Junior school just a few hundred meters away, and a pub not far from there. Oh, and a park 10 minutes away.

Granted that's all there is in the area, you have to use a car or public transport to get to other stuff, but I only 'leave the area' on weekends to meet friends.

My friend in El Dorado Hills, Ca got a ZERO--totally car-dependent. Now he knows why is gas bill is so high!

Dwayne