so I kinda feel like I need to clear up my "prefer it to walking" statement.
I realize a lot of you probably live in cities or a reasonable facsimile, but once we moved south, I was in the middle of the woods or right on the edge of a swamp out in Bumfuct Egypt. Anything worth getting to was 13 miles away at least.
Now when I was in college in GA, shit was way more "walkable" and I liked it. My apartment was in Decatur (some of this info may be a little off due to Elderpotcidis). There was a Pizza place, a DQ, a convenience store and a Laundromat with Tekken 3 in it. THAT was all I needed.
If i needed more, the Marta station was right next to the store, and the next stop put me in front of DeKalb mall so I had shopping and movies, a couple of grocery stores, some better dining options like Shoneys and some Mexican places...also wing trucks were big then, so several of those.
in the opposite direction was Candler Rd, which was full of liquor stores and where my weed plug was. you could walk, but its probably smarter to get on the bus.
Walkable areas was a god send for a student, but then I met a girl with a car and we moved off some main road with Dekalb county jail on it (can't remember that name). but there was a "waffle queen" and an arcade with MVC2 and KI2, so I was in heaven at this point