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The crayon names AREN'T NEARLY as weird as how Ben and Jerry gets the name of the flavors for their ice cream. Seriously...why don't they just start naming their flavors after types of metamorphic rocks?
CityScoreMost Walkable Neighborhoods
1San Francisco86 (47 sq. miles)
2New York83 (304 sq. miles)
3Boston79 (48 sq. miles)
4Chicago76 (227 sq. miles)
5Philadelphia74 (127 sq. miles)
6Seattle72 (83 sq. miles)
7Washington D.C.70 (61 sq. miles)
8Long Beach 69 (50 sq. miles)
9Los Angeles67 (469 sq. miles)
10Portland 66 (145 sq. miles) *Note: Size of the city is only LAND SIZE, not total municipal size which includes water
To be fair to NYC though, San Francisco gets such a high score because its only 47 square miles, while NYC is 304 square miles, much of which is in parts of Staten Island and Queens that aren't walkable friendly. To still maintain a that high of a score DESPITE its somewhat suburban areas (and trust me, I lived on Staten Island to know that it wasn't very walkable) is extremely impressive.
If it were limited to Manhattan, then I would think it would be more walkable than SF since there is not only no place on Manhattan that isn't within walking distance of the subway, but has a much higher density than SF. However, Manhattan is also only 22.96 square miles, so to make it truly fair SF would be more limited by half its size (roughly the size of the Sunset/Outer Richmond/Hunters Point).
San Francisco is fun to walk though. I personally love all those hills. It makes life exciting Force you to be fit. It just sucks that Muni is horrible.
The crayon names AREN'T NEARLY as weird as how Ben and Jerry gets the name of the flavors for their ice cream. Seriously...why don't they just start naming their flavors after types of metamorphic rocks?
CityScoreMost Walkable Neighborhoods
1San Francisco86 (47 sq. miles)
2New York83 (304 sq. miles)
3Boston79 (48 sq. miles)
4Chicago76 (227 sq. miles)
5Philadelphia74 (127 sq. miles)
6Seattle72 (83 sq. miles)
7Washington D.C.70 (61 sq. miles)
8Long Beach 69 (50 sq. miles)
9Los Angeles67 (469 sq. miles)
10Portland 66 (145 sq. miles) *Note: Size of the city is only LAND SIZE, not total municipal size which includes water
To be fair to NYC though, San Francisco gets such a high score because its only 47 square miles, while NYC is 304 square miles, much of which is in parts of Staten Island and Queens that aren't walkable friendly. To still maintain a that high of a score DESPITE its somewhat suburban areas (and trust me, I lived on Staten Island to know that it wasn't very walkable) is extremely impressive.
If it were limited to Manhattan, then I would think it would be more walkable than SF since there is not only no place on Manhattan that isn't within walking distance of the subway, but has a much higher density than SF. However, Manhattan is also only 22.96 square miles, so to make it truly fair SF would be more limited by half its size (roughly the size of the Sunset/Outer Richmond/Hunters Point).
San Francisco is fun to walk though. I personally love all those hills. It makes life exciting Force you to be fit. It just sucks that Muni is horrible.
I agree and if you exclude NE Philly (almost suburban) the Philly scores is in the 80s overall - all the downtown cores you listed are nearly a 100
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Force you to be fit. It just sucks that Muni is horrible.
