I have dreams about parenting skills, housecleaning, and craftiness that center around probably similar gesticulations

my gesticulations on similar matters are not suitable for polite company

In regard to Oregon and prescription-only sudafed - OK, it wiped out the meth industry ... how many law-abiding citizens with bad sinuses did it also get?

I need to walk around our neighborhood more often, because we've got some cool stuff around here. But I'm still bitter about the condos-with-retail-space construction that are responsible for the closing of the thrift store and fabric store that were three blocks from our house. I'm especially bitter since almost all of that new retail space is still empty three years later.

My little area should be walkable, but there are not sidewalks really. Still I could and should walk to the the library and PO and bread store. If I pushed through the fact that NO ONE walks here, I could even walk to the park where mac has soccer practice, the Goodwill store, and an ice cream place or 7-11.

Still, there's not *all* that much there -- a small grocery store, some restaurants, the post office. How I long for a bookstore or movie theater in the neighborhood, let alone a pediatrician!

Judging by my mother's stories of growing up in East Nashville, the two factors that made it much more feasible not to have a car were the streetcar and the fact that downtown was still the shopping hub. She rode the streetcar downtown on Saturday and went to movies and shopped at the big department stores. There was a grocery store and a pharmacy with a fountain in walking distance, but not really a lot of shopping.

Halifax is pretty walkable, but I live an hour walk form downtown, so it's mostly transit for me. I used to live centrally, and everywhere on the peninsula was a 20-30 minute walk. I miss that neighborhood. I wish I could afford it again.

I can walk to a couple of grocery stores, a drug store, a terrific nursery (although I need my car to haul flats of annuals or big bags of mulch), and a handful of restaurants. Hauling out my bike brings my hair salon, more restaurants, and an ABC store into my ken. There's also a hardware store that would be an easy walk if it was open more than 9-5 weekdays and a handful of hours Saturday morning. I can pretty much guarantee I will never be shopping for anything from a hardware store at those times.

and friended back and emailed! PV is on the west coast of Mexico.

Got no email yet. Did you use my profile email? Have never been to MeHIco, but I do have a current passport so I am ready for anything.

Brooklyn is completely walkable and obviously NYC has terrific public transportation, but I do find myself using the car a ton on weekends. Like, Dylan's swim class is about a 5 minute drive OR two buses which can take up to 45 minutes. (In the spring and summer we bike, but not in February.)

I can pretty much guarantee I will never be shopping for anything from a hardware store at those times.

::sniff:: I never got there much either, but I miss that store. I think their main business is still contractors, which is how they can get away with that.

I have good walkability now but don't walk as much as I'd like - I tend to run errands on the way home from work. Really hoping to buy a bike soon, because biking here is pretty awesome.

Since we live smack in the middle of SF, it's the definition of urban density. I've still got a record store (and a big one) five minutes walk away. And a hospital (a big one) just up the hill. And bookstores and comic book stores and a farmer's market and dozens and dozens of restaurants (with cuisines from around the world) within walking distance. Though we do live across the street from GG Park so there's plenty of green immediately visible.

Driving Emmett back and forth to school gives me access to suburbia so I can swing by Target in Albany with their enormous parking lot. And now that he's playing baseball again I get to go exploring strange subdivisions in other nearby cities.

Speaking of cars, I'm going to pick ours up which has a new transmission and is functional for the first time since October. Emmett will no longer have to rise for school at 5:30 am, and sleep all the way to 6:30.