What's within a 2 minute walk of your house?

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Maybe 10 houses

[Sirotnikov]

2 minute walk:

bus station
2 small convenience stores
1 medium vegetables super-market.
postal office
2 more convenience stores


10-20 minutes:
city soccer stadium
former central bus stop (now has a nudie bar instead)
train station
lots of other small stores.
a beautiful street full of pubs and cafes.
The bahai shrine and hanging gardens.

[red_jon]

5 minutes from me is the city centre.

Ooh, forgot I have a doctor's surgery on my street too.

And Provost - it's cool, it's cool. Good to see ya

[Pekka]

crackhouse
church
bar for prossies
drugstore
youth housing
liquor store
gun store
ATM - no banks here
house of the midnight beatings
square of the daylight rapes
abortion clinique
mosque
labour union HQ


I live in paradise.

[Will9]

2 minute walk:
more houses

5 minute walk:
a church
a farm

10 minute bike ride:
3 schools (one Elementray, one Jr. High, and one High)
a building between 2 of the schools that no one knows what it is
a CVS (drug store)
a Starbucks
a shopping center with about ten stores (including a chinese restaurant, a driving school, and an Ace)
a McDonalds
If there is little traffic:
a gas station
a grocery store
a Pizza Hut
a Burger King
a Sonic

[Provost Harrison]

I did forget a few things...

A sandwich shop
A mobile phone shop
A clock/watch specialist
A Burger King
The training grounds of both Millwall and Charlton.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Trees.
2 minutes might be enough to get to the cemetary, but I doubt it.

[Jon Miller]

Nearby there is houses, appartments, an autoshop, a dog training place, a KFC/Taco Bell, a Jewish Temples, and probalby a couple of more things.

JM

[LordShiva]

Two liquor stores

[Asher]

Liquor store
Two grocery stores
Subway station
Million different restaurants (Bloor West Village)
Huge urban park (High Park)
Couple gas stations w/ 24 hr convenience stores (7-11 is one)
EB Games

[KrazyHorse]

From my count:

18 pubs
12 restaurants
A grocery store
3 liquor stores
A post office
2 dentist's offices
4 real estate agent's offices
3 furniture stores
3 art galleries
A "water taxi" stand
About 20 different specialty boutiques
2 barbers/hairdressers
4 general clothing stores

[KrazyHorse]

There might be more. It's hard to think of everything right now.

[Locutus]

I live in a large residential quarter in which most facilities (basically everything you need for day-to-day life: a large mall, a health care centre, a cultural centre, several schools and churches, a mosque, a library, police station, post office, petrol station, sports facilities, etc) are located in one large central area and everything in a wide radius around that is pretty much just houses -- though on the outermost edges there are some shops and other facilities again (cemetery, community gardens, sports facilities, etc). I live about 10 minutes walking from the central area.

But since my particular corner of this quarter is sort of an outcropping that's furthest removed from the centre there are a few 'local' facilities as well, all within 2 minutes of my place:

- two elementary schools with shared facilities (playground, basketball court, football field, sport hall, in election times a polling station)
- a small playground (separate from the schools)
- a dog walking field and some other random green areas (more than just a patch of trees but 'park' would be too big a word)
- a supermarket with facilities (parking lot, loading bay, recycling facilities)
- post box
- bus stop
- vet practice
- arts & crafts shop
- hair dresser
- ice cream vendor
- some currently empty shopping space that the supermarket recently moved out of but noone else has moved in yet
- "guided independent living facility for disabled youth" (which basically means an apartment block where mildly retarded twenty-somethings live under supervision -- no, that doesn't include me )
- canteen for neighbourhood meetings and the like

Just outside the two-minute radius on the edge of town are a petrol station, two car dealers/repair shops, a caravan dealer/holiday shop and a company that makes outdoor advertising signs -- and they're about to start construction on a new commercial area with some more shops.

[Zkribbler]

More houses, lot of hills, and a park that was purchased recently by the Auduban Society for a bird sanctuary.

[Solly]

A Wetherspoons