My favorite verse in the Bible is Mark 9:24, which ends with the phrase, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" That pretty well sums up my spiritual journey. This blog is for recording my thoughts, ideas, insights, struggles, battles, blessings, stumblings, hopes and victories on my road to salvation. Oh, and just random life stuff, too.
Here's a site that rates the "walkability" of your address or potential address. Our house scored 12 out of 100 (bad). My folks scored 45 out of 100 (middling). What does your home score?
http://www.walkscore.com
[h.t. Freakonomics]
4 comments:
Zero. Seriously. Frickin' goose egg. Snobby city-slickers.
I ran another address through the thing, just to make sure something wasn't broken, and that one worked fine.
I guess living out in the country hurts my "walking score". Whatever that means. I have an acre and a half that I walk around on daily. I bust my butt working the land (landscaping and mowing, not farming). The next thing they'll tell me is that all my grass and trees are bad for the environment or something.
You find the coolest stuff, Jim.
71. Not too shabby.
You do have to be sure to put in your exact and complete address; I tried just my house/street and zipcode, and got some random place.
It showed my house on a little map, correctly, then showed the distances to about a dozen different kinds of businesses and community areas.
I guess they are basing the points on how easy, convenient, or realistic it would be to walk to each of those places.
Almost every one of those places was between 2 and 5 miles away from me. To me, that's close enough to be a short, convenient drive but far enough away that I can still see the stars on a clear night. :-)
Erin,
I'm jealous - kinda. As I said to some friends via email about it yesterday, "If/when Les and I ever move (it won't be until the kids are grown, probably) I would like to live somewhere with things more convenient and 'walkable'. Either that or way the hell out in the country, because I don't like people. A bundle of contradictions am I. :o)"
I grew up in Boulder walking all over the place - to me two miles one way is quite "walkable". In fact, that's one of my beefs with the site. When I was working over in England that's what I loved - all the cities and towns I worked in, even London, were quite walkable.
CH,
Yeah - they count official bike/walking paths as increasing your home's walkability (I know because friends with some of those nearby their homes have commented to me about that) but obviously they never saw Andy and Opie walking down the country lane to the fishin' hole.
And then there's this to consider.
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