Grocery Stores

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I don't know if I'd say that any suburb I've lived in has had a walkable grocery store, I don't think I've ever been to a walkable suburban grocery store on this continent. Just to be clear, I don't consider a grocery store that I can technically walk to, but which is surrounded by miles of parking and dangerous roads, "walkable", but I'm sure that's a question of definition, it's certainly not pleasant to walk to.

But leaving aside the lack of a grocery store, DTK is generally a walkable, car-light place. Yes, I do complain aboout jackasses racing their noisy cars up the street, but at the end of the day, it's mostly not the 4-5 lanes of traffic that virtually every other part of the city gets to deal with (mind you, I live well away from Weber and Victoria), we have less cars and traffic violence than your average suburb, and I can walk to far more places than I could in any suburb I've ever lived in. I am able to live car free and feel relatively unencumbered by doing so. Even in winter, at least one direction from my home has clear sidewalks.

Is Richmond a suburb? I've walked to T&Ts there. Walked past 3 going from point A to point B.

Normally I live 5 minutes from the Sobey's on Weber and Bridgeport. Neither of those streets are walkable, but happily I need to cross neither of them to get to the grocery store. I really dislike the window treatment at the Moore's which hides cars that might hit you, but other than that, I'd say that it is reasonable to walk to that Sobey's if you live on the right side of Weber and Bridgeport.