Livin' in a Walker's Paradise
WalkScore, a website that promotes walkable communities, ranks my downtown Stamford neighborhood “a walkers paradise”, 94 out of 100. The site assigns a score by measuring the distance of your home to various amenities. The system is somewhat flawed, I am here to tell you I have never purchased groceries at Nikita’s Value Mart. Cat statues? Sure. Groceries. No.
We’ve spent a good amount of bits and bytes bitching about the downtown and no doubt there is serious work that needs to be done, but I do think not enough credit is given sometimes to what we do have now. For the last few nights in a row I’ve had a good time bouncing around downtown after work and probably accounts for my lack of posting in the last few weeks.
If you’re looking for something to do downtown this week, I recommend Man on Wire at the Avon.
1 comments :
I can vouch for the walking factor. It's the single most valuable aspect of my location. I live within 400 yards of my supermarket, coffee shop, office supply store, two home supply stores, my gym, a dry cleaners, three clothing stores, a Subway, IHOP, Chinese food, several pizza places, and a RadioShack. If I joined one of the local banks that'd be within walking distance too, but my bank isn't too far off. I'll counterpoint this post in one of my own. :)
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