the take
we set out on a healthy walk to get coffee, fully planning to go home and work, and somehow ended up on a patio drinking beer in the sun. that's the problem with walkable neighborhoods. people hear the phrase and picture strollers, good schools and trees, but we think the walk score should really be the drunk score. it's not that walkable neighborhoods are bad. it's that every patio is a decision point, and we keep making the same decision. it started as a fitness walk and it ended on a patio, and we'd like the record to show we did technically get the coffee.
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the backstory
Walk Score is a real 0 to 100 rating of how walkable an address is. According to Walk Score's methodology, it maps walking routes to nearby amenities, gives full points to places within a 5 minute walk, and gives no points past a 30 minute walk. A score of 90 to 100 is labeled "Walker's Paradise," meaning daily errands don't require a car. Patios, as far as we can tell, aren't a separate category.
where it's from
transcript
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- 0:00The funniest thing is like when you're going for a walk and you're like, oh, I'm going to go for a fitness walk, I'm going to be healthy, maybe you're going to get a coffee, and then you walk by a restaurant or a patio, and then you're like, let's stop in.
- 0:13Because that happened to us the other day, went over a walk, went to get coffee, we're literally going home to work. No, ended up sitting on a patio drinking beer in the sun.
- 0:25That's the problem with walkable neighborhoods.
- 0:27It's the problem.
- 0:28You hear walkable neighborhood and you think like you see families with strollers and good schools and trees, really the walk score should be the drunk score.
