Gina from Vegas looks back in delight at Oak Park IL, where she used to live, in a comment in this CNN Money article about “walkability” in city neighborhoods:
I live in Las Vegas . . . [where] efforts to bring walkability to insulated planned communities has primarily been shut down by the economy, though my last neighborhood was close, with two parks, a library, some shopping, and restaurants all within a few miles. It was also in a new (built around 2002) upper-class master planned community. It still didnt hold a candle to my old neighborhood in Oak Park, IL outside of Chicago. I frequently went months without seeing my car when I lived there.
She has that right.
Blithe Spirit 