John Danicic and Kim Ode are living the suburban American Dream.
“We have it all!”
That’s one of the major reasons we moved here."
“That’s my barber,” Danicic points out while strolling to lunch at a local diner.
And here’s the coffee shop, which is a great place to meet up with friends."
Walkable neighborhoods are also seeing significant jumps in property values.
“It enhances our lives in so many ways,” he says.
(According toAAA, the annual cost of maintaining a car in 2016 was about $8,500.)
“We wanted to be close to things,” Lamb explains.
“My husband walks to the grocery store every day.
It’s like we live in Europe.
Our daughter walks to her high school.
And downtown is right across the pedestrian bridge.
Luckily, that’s changing now in some places, says Robert Ping, director of theWALC Institute.
Portland, Oregon, for instance, is planning for90 percent of its neighborhoodsto be 20-Minute Villages by 2030.
In 2015, U.S. A 20-minute walk is generally about a mile, Ping explains.
“But that’s a long ways to go to get a quart of milk.”
Whether the destinations are 5, 10 or 20 minutes away, the quality of the walk is key.
“That makes us feel exposed.
