What is essential for you to have nearby? I can think of groceries, fresh produce, haircut/salon, a couple restaurants, schools, etc. Those are the obvious ones. What else are you looking for, such as a flower shop?
What is essential for you to have nearby? I can think of groceries, fresh produce, haircut/salon, a couple restaurants, schools, etc. Those are the obvious ones. What else are you looking for, such as a flower shop?
Pharmacy - both for prescriptions and for general over-the-counter stuff. Being able to walk to ours has been great.
Hardware store - our closest is a drive or train ride away.
Library, there’s a ton of good resources available even beyond book and movie rentals.
In an ideal world, some kind of makerspace would be awesome - if just to access tools I don’t have and talk over my projects with someone. Even better if we could set up some kind of lumber swap shed - a lot of usable wood from people’s projects, construction seconds etc, gets thrown away around here, and I can only store so much. I think this one is big if we want to encourage people to fix things rather than throw it out and buy new.
When we were walking distance to a local movie theater, that turned out to be a highlight of living there but it’s definitely more of a luxury.