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How walkable is your neighborhood?
Just type your address (or any address, for that matter) into Walkscore and the service will go to work finding all the grocery stores, restaurants, coffee shops, bars, movie theaters, parks, libraries, bookstores, and drugstores it can using Google Maps. When it's done searching, Walkscore will spit out a walkability score on a scale of 1 to 100.
Although we believe that Download Squad Brooklyn office is in a terrific neighborhood, it received a score of just 74 points. We blame tha ton the fact that the nearest movie theater is shockingly nearly 2 miles away. Still, this knocks the socks off of a Princeton, NJ address we tried that got a walkability score of 24.
Walkscore could come in handy if you're thinking of moving, or if you just want to find out which amenities in your neighborhood you've been missing out on.
[via Neatorama]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
