Board 8 > How far away can some place be and still be "walkable" to you?

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For the purposes of this poll, "walkable" means that on a regular basis, assuming the appropriate infrastructure (sidewalks, crosswalks, etc.) exists, you would be willing to walk there and back instead of taking a car.

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I'd say up to an hour or so is definitely "walkable" but whether or not I actually walk depends on what I'm actually doing and how much of a pain traffic/parking is.
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I voted for a mile, but it's more dependent on circumstances than distance. The area I live isn't all that friendly to pedestrians, so where I consider walkable is very limited. But I have lived elsewhere and voluntarily taken longer walks to get places. I like walking, just needs to be the right environment.

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depends how regular the basis honestly/what the alternative feels like

i wouldn't want to walk one way more than 10 minutes for groceries, but for my daily commute, a 40-minute walk would be pretty fine
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Voted first option, but it's really dependent on what I'm going there for.

Groceries / food pickup? No more than thirty minutes each way, preferably. Running errands that don't require me to carry things, or going to events / bars? Anything under three miles is regularly fair game for walking distance in my book, though I've sometimes walked further just for the fun & exploration of it.

Edit: forgot about work, as others mentioned - up to an hour of walking for work is also fine and I occasionally get pangs of nostalgia for when that was my routine

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Situationally Im willing to walk longer amounts, but I think like a mile / mile.5 is how much Id say is walkable all the time, assuming im also going to walk back from there.
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Two miles is around the exact distance I'd say lol

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Texas is a deathtrap so anything more than 5 minutes isn't walkable

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Yeah anything more than 5 minutes to anywhere where I'd be running an errand and I'm probably opening myself up to a whole mess of needless negative encounters, plus taking a ton of extra time for no real reason.

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15-20 sounds right

used to do about an hour but I didnt have access to a car then

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If I can't walk there in 5 minutes I'm driving

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Bartzyx posted...

For the purposes of this poll, "walkable" means that on a regular basis, assuming the appropriate infrastructure (sidewalks, crosswalks, etc.) exists, you would be willing to walk there and back instead of taking a car.

Still kinda depends on what "regular basis" means. If it's twice every day that's different than twice a week, or whatever.

Either way, 2 miles with no "or more" option is silly! If it's nice weather and I don't have any other obligations on my time and I don't have a particular need to drive (such as transporting groceries) I'll gladly spend half my day walking wherever

Roughly 10m max

Give or take a few I suppose
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1/2 a mile is usually what I do, but back when I had my old car that barely worked I'd walk much further than two miles.

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500 miles.

Maybe even 500 more.

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1 mile is around the max that I would probably describe as walkable. I definitely walk to places that are further than that, but it feels weird to describe them as walkable.

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5 miles?

2 i guess.
i'm closer to 3 miles for something being walkable. it's just not fun and is a chore at that point but it is walkable, just not something i'd want to do on a regular basis at all.

regular basis, 1 is easy.


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Assuming this is something I'd have to do regularly, I think 20 mins each way is about my limit, but that has less to do with it being 'walkable' and more to do with having better uses of my time. Why would I regularly walk half an hour plus each way every weekday when another form of transportation could shave hours off of my weekly commuting?

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In general, anything up to 25-30 minutes one way I'd just walk and not really think about it. Longer than that and I'd start considering public transport, though it'd still depend on ease/convenience of options
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More than 2 miles but probably less than 4.

Having lived in Manhattan, 2 miles is a fairly low bar for the furthest walkable distance, 3-4 miles sometimes ends up being a reasonable ask

Twenty minutes sound alright.
I've been taking walks with my dad during this pandemic as a form of exercise. Twenty minutes to get to somewhere is acceptable. Forty minutes is pushing it, but mostly because of boredom.

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Anything up to 30mins. Otherwise nah

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these results are crazy to me

do people really have so much free time that they can waste 40 or even 80 minutes walking there and back?

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I agree

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Dragonair posted...

these results are crazy to me

do people really have so much free time that they can waste 40 or even 80 minutes walking there and back?

I live in Chicago and dont have a car. Im not going to call an Uber to drive me back and forth from a place a mile away

also I like walking sometimes, so for something like two miles away I often get a ride one way and then walk home
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If it's an hour away, it's reasonable. Anything else.. yeah not going that far.

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Dragonair posted...

these results are crazy to me

do people really have so much free time that they can waste 40 or even 80 minutes walking there and back?

Lol

I know, right?

Bipeds! Walking! It's crazy.

(jk but referring to physical exercise as time wasted is maybe a BIT of a blanket statement)

Imagine walking that long and not dying from the environment or other humans

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I voted for 15 minutes but my thinking was for round trip quick visits so 30 minutes. For a longer purpose like work commute or a night out or something, a longer walk is fine although that is a lot of commute time to do regularly.

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Regularly, 10-15 minutes is right. For rare occasions, 30 minutes is fine. It's hard to say since I'll bike for anything more than a couple blocks.

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ninkendo posted...

Imagine walking that long and not dying from the environment or other humans

Let me tell you about liveable environments.

Also Id say up to an hour. I used to walk 40 minutes to work back when offices existed and it was fine.

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Up to an hour, but I enjoy long walks (as long as the weather is nice). More than that and I'm probably taking my bike or public transportation (I don't have a car)

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Yeah I was looking for the 60 minute option as well

That's assuming it's my "main" thing for the day (i.e. school, work, etc)

I won't walk 60 minutes for a 10-minute grocery store visit but I'll walk 60 minutes if it's a thing I'm gonna be at for a few hours. (Or if it's the only appointment or w/e I have that day)

I used to walk the 40 minutes from work to a farther train station just for the fun of it. I'd also sometimes walk all the way home, which took me about one hour and forty minutes.

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turbopuns3 posted...

Lol

I know, right?

Bipeds! Walking! It's crazy.

(jk but referring to physical exercise as time wasted is maybe a BIT of a blanket statement)

well there are definitely more efficient ways to exercise than walking

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Jogging or running

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Wouldn't get to your destination or if you did you'd be all sweaty

I mean, obviously there are other forms of exercise than walking but you're dodging the point by saying that

I underestimated how much people here like to walk!
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About a mile. After that, there are too many possible factors that make travelling by foot inconvenient.

One mile at most

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ninkendo posted...

Texas is a deathtrap so anything more than 5 minutes isn't walkable

Pansy

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*takes PUN with me to Michigan in the middle of January*

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My grandfather walked a couple laps around his neighborhood every single day of his life barring illness or inclement weather. He grew up so poor he had to hunt squirrels and rabbits to eat. Had to walk several miles to and from a one room school every day, etc. Somehow when I walk around my neighborhood (or just anywhere if the mood strikes me) I feel somehow connected with him.

Maybe that sounds silly to some, but that alone makes me perfectly content to just walk all damn day and enjoy the outdoors and peace of mind