We can get great coffee in walking distance, grocery, drugstore, restaurants but no very local bar. Obviously don’t want to go in a car to drink and occasionally (today) it would just be so nice to have a local place. Not for, like, a night of partying and not for a fancy dinner. Just one or two drinks and walk home.

Do you have a local bar and do you ever go there?

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    Yes. It’s a Thai restaurant so even 2-ingredient drinks aren’t great, but the bar is nice and the food is great.

    Edit:

    There’s another bar close by but it’s basically the bar for all bar backs, bartenders, and others in the industry. Their Monday nights are ragers.

    There is a strip places about a mile away and it’s totally walkable, but walking back is harry. The local homeless can sometimes get into something a little too crazy and it starts to feel unsafe as the night progresses.

    • polygon6121@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Sorry, I am not from the us and need an explanation. Do you mean a mile (1,609km) is considered too far to walk? Or do you mean you need a car to even get out of the suburbs because of limited walking paths?

      • morphballganon@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        It’s possible to walk a mile drunk, but a person would consider driving intoxicated to avoid it, given the choice. So it’s not “walkable from a bar,” practically speaking. You’d be halfway home and think “this shit sucks, I should’ve taken the car.”

      • RBWells@lemmy.worldOPM
        1·
        9 months ago

        I don’t live in the suburbs, honestly that’s why this bugs me. I live in a medium size city in what id describe as “uptown” but not fancy? Mixed use zoning, on my way to work (2.5km) if I’m walking I pass 2 wee strip malls with odds and ends shops, a cafe with fantastic coffee, breakfast and lunch only, many doctors offices, a Colombian restaurant, a jewler, a Starbucks, pot dispensary, 2 fast food places, a hospital, there just oddly is not a bar or restaurant with bar anywhere close by.

        But yes there are suburbs here I call House Farms. Just houses for miles, ringed by roads too big and fast to cross safely on foot. So many of those out in every direction from the city here.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 months ago

    Sort of. I live just outside a town center, maybe just too outside. On nice weekend days, I might walk past several, but would have my kids with me. However if I do want to go out for a drink, I’d generally decide it’s too far

  • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 months ago

    There is a restaurant basically next door to me that has a great bar with a huge craft beer selection. They also have fantastic cocktails, and excellent happy hour specials. Sometimes my wife and I will just pop over there to have a Margarita or a couple beers and split an app during happy hour. It’s pretty great.

  • clive@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    9 months ago

    A new bar just opened up last week in the ground floor of our apartment building. We went a few days after their grand opening and the cocktails were great. I am very much looking forward to patronizing them more

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.de
    2·
    9 months ago

    We’ve got several restaurants (Spanish tapas bar/restaurant, a Greek place and an Italian place with a beer garden). Don’t know of any dedicated bars, but it’s kind of suburban here. I only go there a couple of times a year, though; I don’t go out much in general.

    But this isn’t the US, so there’s decent options a short bus or bicycle ride away. Is “30 min. by foot” a “walking distance”?

    • RBWells@lemmy.worldOPM
      2·
      9 months ago

      If you are happy to walk it on foot, yes. I consider my work in easy walking distance at 2.5km, commuting by walk is reasonably pleasant unless it’s really hot or raining.

      Personally my walking distance different in different directions though because to the north there is a street too big to cross comfortably at any time of day and to the south it gets a little rough at night but east and west I will go farther.

  • HallowellNash@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    9 months ago

    Traffic and the lack of sidewalks in my neighborhood make it a dicey proposition at best but there’s a couple Mexican restaurants within a mile and we have walked to them in summer weather. Now as we’re in our later years of life, it’s probably not too safe for us to make that walk anymore.

  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 months ago

    Barely. There’s a BJs and a couple pizzerias with beers. My home bar is the best negroni in the area 😂