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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No it's not "walkable".  You can walk it in a pinch but you aren't going to be walking it commonly enough to make it a part of your day without thinking. [/quote]

Are you missing a limb or have other health issues?  Or just fat and out of shape with no intentions of living a healthy life style?[/quote]

No, I'm just someone who understands mass transit, having grown up in a major European city that moves on metro, not cars.  This is how it works, dear, in the world where people use mass transit to commute, not as an exotic pastime that earns hipster cred:  if you're a five-minute or less walk from metro, you're golden.  If you're a ten-minute walk to metro, you're OK.  If you're a fifteen-minute walk to metro, you're entering the land of "one bus stop to metro", because some people don't want to spend half an hour walking. Some do but some don't, so you're in a one-bus-stop-to-metro land.  Twenty-minute walk to metro? Forget about it.  You are not walking distance to metro, and no real estate ad for a flat located twenty minutes away from the nearest metro station would ever call it "walk to metro".  Because it isn't. Twenty minutes is something can walk in a pinch, or if you're having a leisurely stroll, or if you're in the mood to walk, but a twenty-minute walk as a regular, non-thinking, routine part of your commute? Nah. You're taking a bus or driving all the way.

Both apartments I rented in that city were three minutes away from metro, just for that specific purpose - to be truly walkable to metro in a way that is a convenience, not an endurance contest. [/quote]

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