http://www.walkscore.com/

The place I moved from is a 44 of 100. The new place is over 80!

Funny too, my wife cited this as one of the benefits. Go figure.

Anyway, given all this pain surrounding driving, what are your alternatives? How many of them are there and where are they?

That's your walk score. Love the Internet sometimes.

Walk Score: 0 out of 100

Walk score: 51 out of 100. I should be walking more.

Scored a 78. But we knew this before we moved in and it's one of the reasons we love living where we do. We've been here nearly 20 years.

The wife and I take a 3 mile, one hour walk 3-4 times a week before kids are up.

I love rural America but wouldn't want to live there. You have to drive everywhere.

Scored 78. But does that include swimming? It list a movie theatre in St Helens Oregon as 0nly 5.91 miles away, I have not quite mastered walking on water yet!

"I have not quite mastered walking on water yet!"

Ditto here. Closest store 1.8 miles. Unfortunately its across the Willamette river. The closest bridge is Boone Bridge (I-5), some 8 miles away which means its a 16 mile one way trip, 32 miles total. So, my score ought to be less than zero.

17 out of 100 here ... funny, one of the 17 is a bar that burned to the ground last year.

Doesn't seem to work here. I enter an address on the site and get "please enter an address."
The number of cookies the site attempts to leave on my computer is also deplorable.

2 out of 100 here... And, I like it that way.

86! But I'd starve to death if I tried to get any food at the closest "restaurant" : it's a restaurant supply store.

It could use some fine tuning, as others have stated, but it's pretty cool.

My old address was a 2 also...and I loved it out there. My horse got alot of walking done with me

32 for me...lots of places in good bike range, however!

Being able to get to places on horseback is just fine! I grew up where this was true. The local country store was about a mile away, and down hill too!

Town was 4 miles, and city was about 30 or so.

Horses were excellent and fun. So were ordinary bikes.

All a matter of perspective, I guess.

One thing that strikes me is the number of densely populated places that are NOT walkable, when they should be, and I suppose that's why I posted it.

City live, that needs a car has something wrong with it.

Rural life, needing car / horse / bike / motocycle, is as expected. And good too, depending on how / what people enjoy.

45 out of 100 for me and I don't think I'd want it any higher.

OK I finally figured this out... I wasn't patient enough. And it works without any of the stupid cookies.

Current living situation: 77. Although one would be a fool to patronize some of the businesses listed, much less, walk to them.

Last location I lived: 68. Doesn't surprise me too much.

Old place in a really nice, complete neighborhood: 91! Gosh I miss there (got too expensive). And I did walk to quite a few places there, too!

Okay now for the real question. How many of us who took this survey walk to places nearby?

Working from home has loads of walking benefits for us. One being I walk to work everyday (okay so it's the basement). Both our kids walk to school.

Library is walking distance as well as a bank or two. Our credit union is a Max trip when we make the time.

When I need to go to the airport I can usually take Max. Of course I walk to my stop.

I walk to either one of my workout gyms. Walk to the PO Box most of the time.

Also just enjoy walking in the neighborhood. Since our kids go to the neighborhood schools we'll come across the parents of some of those kids while on an evening stroll.

Park is within walking distance (trying to get the kids to play there more often).

We are planning on going to Victoria BC this summer. Yes we will drive to Port Angeles but park the van and walk onto the ferry that only takes pedestrians and people on foot. We will use public transportation in Victoria and of course walk....a lot.

Walking has always been a big part of our lifestyle as a family.

So what are some of your walking stories?

0 was my score. We live too far away from anything. It's nice because we don't have any noise and neighbors but my damn walk score is 0!

We used to walk, then went a LONG time not walking much at all.

Recently, we walked to the park, walked to get food, walked for the sake of walking and talking.

No big stories there yet, but I'm sure some will come soon enough.

I can't throw a rock without hitting a restaurant, so there's a bunch of very short walks...

More walks include: Work, Post Office, banking centers, Office Depot, hardware stores, coffee shop.

The closest grocery is pretty spendy, so I include that in the store shopping/errand days instead of a special trip.

It's definitely a great way to connect with people and see what's new in the 'hood.

Where I am now, the only thing I walk to is the bus stop. Used to walk to the Subway up the street, until one day I walked in and there's a typed in 10-point notice near the cash register that they had raised all their prices by several dollars and were not participating in any present or future national promotions. Never going there again. There's absolutely nothing else in the neighborhood worth walking to.

I live amongst the nursery stock in Clackamas Co., so my current score is 0.

Our old place in N. Portland near the intersection of Lombard and Greeley got a 62. I miss that house, and walkability is one of the key reasons.