Comments on: How to Kill Your Commute

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:17:00 +0000

The Optimal Home Location tool is interesting, but could be better if it let me weight the places I go. Work 5 times a week, gym three times a week, friend’s house twice a week, etc. This is a neat tool, but told me information I already knew about my town.

On the other hand, my current Walkscore (suburban Baton Rouge) is 22, which I find high. It doesn’t seem to take into account no sidewalks and too many crazy drivers. The neighborhood I want to live in has a walk score of 71.

My old address in Dallas has an awesome Walkscore of 89. I miss that.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:48:00 +0000

My address scored a 51 but a lot of the things listed, such as drug stores, coffeeshops, etc, are either not those things at all (it lists a Johnson & Johnson research facility as a drug store) or non-existent. The closest bar it listed has had three different names since the listing name, been torn down twice, and is currently a liquor store. Bizarre.

By: Yikes

Yikes — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:38:00 +0000

I’m a little surprised – my neighborhood got a 71/100.

You couldn’t pay me to walk down these streets, alone or otherwise. They’re fairly busy main streets, but it’s still too dangerous. (I hope to move soon.)

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:40:00 +0000

My walkscore was 9… out of one hundred. When you live in the mountains in Tucson, AZ, I don’t think you can get much higher.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:10:00 +0000

My walkscore was surprisingly high because many of the allegedly walkable destinations are in bad neighborhoods and way too uphill to even consider.

By: MF

MF — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:00:00 +0000

This would have been nice to have when my family moved over the summer. We ended up downgrading from a perfect 100 walk-score to a 35 walk-score.

Even though we were moving from a city to a suburb (out of necessity), I think we could have done better than 35.

By: J

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:30:00 +0000

A website like this would have been great. My wife and I took no less than 15 trips to Columbus Ohio (one hour each way) searching out neighborhoods and the best location and a good deal. This would have saved alot of time and money as gas was almost $4.00 a gallon at the time.

By: Gussiebuns

Gussiebuns — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:25:00 +0000

This did not work at all for me. It put me in the middle of the water in Long Island Sound!

By: Southern Buddhist

Southern Buddhist — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:32:00 +0000

My husband and I traded a 90-minute commute from New Jersey to Manhattan for a fixer-upper in a small Virginia town. We live just outside downtown, and can pretty much walk to all four (North, South, East, and West) borders of the city from our house. My commute is now a ten-minute walk. Definitely a better life. Besides, even though it was a marginal neighborhood when we moved here ten years ago, so many people were buying houses on our block that now every house has been renovated and it’s a great neighborhood. Fear not the skeeve!

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By: 8rustystaples

8rustystaples — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:24:00 +0000

As far as L.A. goes, I think an hour commute is about the best you can hope for.