I won't go beyond that. I usually stick to half a mile though. Our campus is huge (a few square miles, over 30,000 students), so one person could walk that once a day and not even realize it. Amy, 23
Baton Rouge, LA For me walking distance is anywhere between 2-5 miles. Yet the perception of what is walkable cetainly changes if you have easy access to a car. Felicia, 34
Somerville, MA Yet another question with quite a few variables. I can still handle a few miles now and then but I am more likely to drive now Alias Irrelevante Before I started breaking legs with mad abandon, a mile was an easy walking distance. Now a quarter mile hike is very taxing Jill, 59
Saylorsburg, PA Anywhere on campus, and maybe a few blocks beyond. Even to East Ames, if you've got all day. Karen, 20
Marshelltown/Ames, IA Five miles or less. Laura, 35
Lowell, MA . . . the title of one of the best, and most well-respected Twilight Zone episodes from the first or second season. . .(circa 1959). . . .Actually penned by series creator Rod Serling, the charming bittersweet story concerned a man's longing for his lost, simple, innocent days of youth. . . . Although I don't believe the town is actually mentioned in this episode(as Serling does in several other shows in this anthology series) Serling did say he was, quite consciosly, thinking of his own boyhood in Binghamton, New York when he wrote it. In the episode, the grown man gets to enjoy going to the neighborhood park and drink an ice cream soda at a local drugstore as it was when he was a boy in the 1920's. The episode also prominently showcases one of Binghamton New York's proudest features - its many area carousels or merry-go-rounds. In what is probably one of the most quaint suburban areas of the town, a few blocks away from Serling's childhood home, there actually is still standing today a well maintained lush park that has a working carousel with many of the same pieces and fixtures still in place from its original building. Also in this park is a gazebo, or bandstand, which, if you walk into it, has a silver plate in its center with two words carved out - the words "Walking Distance." It's odd and cryptic and has no explanation beside it , but I'm sure that this is a clear reference to the Twilight Zone episode that has that title. . . . . . . . .(for me, however, "walking distance" is probably anywhere within two to three miles from where I am. . .) mothmc, 35
Pensacola, FL
Walking distance is the distance you walk after you have taken the subway, the bus, the train, all public transportation because you don't have a car.
Meredith
Cambridge, MA
Elk Grove, CA APRIL FOOLS!!!!! Hahaha!!!
30 mins is walking distance. 3 km I suppose? Ray, 17
Toronto CANADA Local, of corse, importantant enought to go, but not worth taking a cab. Socrates One
Lowell, MA I consider .05 miles within walking distance. But I've walked as much as ten miles in one day. But that was a mountain hike; rather brutal with beautiful scenery. For the last 17 years I've been living with the affects of rheumatoid arthritis. For alot of the time it was to painful to walk for even .5 miles but in that last few years its gotten tolerable. Cindy, 41
Lowell, MA Like how far off will I park in the parking lot? Or how far do I walk to get exercise? Answer to the first 0 as close as I can get and the second is two miles. Janet, 42
E. Brunswick, NJ