How far do you live from the town/city /village centre?

[Spinneret]

Or the centre of the place you live

I would say 5 minutes walk

 

[mjkacmom]

Five minute walk, town is 3 miles, the “main” street with shops and restaurants runs through the middle of town, end to end.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Not sure how to answer - I live in a city of 850,000 people. It's a 5 minute walk to a main road from our house. Main road has some stores and restaurants. Downtown as in with the skyscrapers would take hour to 90 minutes to walk I would think. Non peak hours its a 15 minute drive.

 

[kanerf]

Well, I work in D.C and I am right across the street from the National Mall. I stay in Alexandria most of the time and there I am right off the main drag, King Street.

 

[tvguy]

No center of my community where I live. I'm in the suburbs where nothing is centralized.
As for the center of the city, 13 miles. I try to avoid going inside the city limits unless I have to for a Doctor's appointment.

 

[DisneyCowgirl]

I live 11 miles from downtown, but that's not where you'd go to shop or eat out etc. Virtually everything I go to (office, grocery, kids' schools, eating out, church, doctors and dentists) is within 5 miles of my house.

 

[El Nebuloso]

I live smack dab in the middle of our town center - but considering the size of our town that's not really saying much

 

[TippyThomas]

About 25 miles or so.

 

[LSUmiss]

I live 8.5 miles from downtown but about 1 mile from the shopping, dining etc near me.

 

[cayennews]

I love about 3 miles from the center of my town. Just far enough to not be too near the traffic.

 

[firefly_ris]

About 5 miles outside of the town village. About 25 miles to the city.

 

[E&Cmom]

15-20 minutes depending traffic.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

1/2 mile

 

[Tiggerish]

I live in the downtown center of my city which is the 2nd largest city in the state. The downtown has a thriving nightlife and a significant amount of housings scattered throughout the office buildings and hotels.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

The town hall is about a ten minute walk away. I go past frequently since it's right across from the library.

 

[bcla]

Depends on what that means. I live in a suburban community and we have a couple of small "main drags" which I can walk to fairly easily. But then there are other cities and communities where there might be main drags. But it's pretty much decentralized in the suburbs. I guess Berkeley has a small downtown. Oakland has a bigger one, and of course San Francisco has a pretty big one.

But even then - the idea of a "city" is really more of a political entity and more or less a manmade construct. We of course have freedom of travel and around here the suburban areas all more or less blend into each other, where often the only apparent difference is the color of the street signs.

 

[ronandannette]

13km to our downtown core. My neighbourhood is considered mid-town, or near-southwest.