Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood?
In your neighborhood?
In your neighborhood?
Say, who are the people in your neighborhood?
The people that you meet each day
(hides in embarrassment for remembering lyrics to a Sesame Street song)
In Sydney you have the CBD (or Central Business District, or downtown) and you have your suburbs. There are exceptions where you have a CBD inside the city (such as Parramatta) or smaller CBDs (such as Chatswood, Hurstville or Strathfield) but generally there is the CBD and then there are the suburbs. However, it seems that in the US there are suburbs and there are neighborhoods. I'm not sure what the difference is other than it seems suburbs implies that they are further out from the CBD/downtown than the neighborhoods are.
I've decided I definitely want to live in a 'walkable neighborhood'. A walkable neighborhood is one where most of the necessities are nearby within a walking distance such as a newsagent/newstand, butcher, baker(y), grocery store, good restaurants in a variety of cuisines or a coffee shop, a park, maybe a library or a bookstore, good schools for the kids, drugstores, that kind of thing. It's better for the environment not to have so many people driving and better for your own personal physical health. Another thing is I think it's better for your mental health to be in contact with a wide variety of people on a daily basis.
I found this website Walk Score last night. It's really interesting. You plug in an address and it tells you the walkable 'score' out of 100.
I got an address from Craigslist (one I'd like to live in - hahaha yeah right, as if I could afford it!) and it came up with a score of 91/100! Pretty awesome!
Girard Avenue, La Jolla
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