Brent ToderianHow do you measure a livable, lovable city? One possibility — 94% of Parisians live less than 5 minutes from a bakery. HT @parisyimby.
Mathias Eichler@BrentToderian one of the struggles I can’t solve living on the west coast of US. I resorted to baking myself.
Jonathan WrightAh. The smell of fresh bread from your door.
Gabriele Pollara@BrentToderian that seems a very good metric to me!!! Would certainly make me happy... 🥖 🇫🇷
Tina Guenther@BrentToderian Got to experience just that in #Paris, several groceries, shops, bars restaurants just around the corner, and the local Sunday market, what a wonderful place to live! #savoirvivre #15minutecities
Gabriel@BrentToderian it surely is a conspiracy! Bakers play a big part in the new world order, everybody knows that! 🙃 😅
PampaJust needs the Café overlay!
Nick Brosnahan@BrentToderian I just did this in California. I got in my car, drove 8 minutes to get to the highway, drove another 5 minutes to get to the right exit, another 3 minutes to get to the bakery, stood in line for 5 minutes, then drove back for another 16 minutes.
By comparison, when I lived in the 17th, this was 3 min walk to the closest boulangerie, at most a 2 minute wait, and I spent the next 15 minutes sitting and enjoying my coffee and croissant, then a leisurely stroll home.
@richh has moved@BrentToderian Funny that you should pick on bakeries. I’ve said for a long time that I’d put up with a lot - from govts of every colour - if there were a patisserie on every corner (in UK). Not just a bread bakery mind you - I need my Sunday morning pain au choc/breakfast pastries! (Mind you, if we had that, the country would be a different place and there wouldn’t be as much to “put up with”!).
Janet Benger@richh @BrentToderian Chaussons aux pommes
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@BrentToderian Here in Italy from bakery and pizzeria
JB@BrentToderian That’s the life
Martha Howell@BrentToderian
95% of the residents of Madison, WI live within 10 minutes of a park
95% of the residents of Madison, WI live within 10 minutes of a park
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@BrentToderian That metric works only when you live in a walkable neighbourhood. Many people live within 5-minute walk of a bakery in Seattle, but they choose to drive to it because they deem it too dangerous to walk there.
Jeff Burrows@BrentToderian We recently purchased an aparte in Dijon, < 5 min to bakery, les Halles, multiple restaurants, natural wine shop, spectacular cheese shop. Loving #dijonlife such a contrast to the US, though #northloop Minneapolis is a close runner-up!
Jürgen - يورجن (he,him) ⚣@BrentToderian I guess this is true for most bigger cities in Europe.
Cap. Pizzocchero 🇺🇦@jyrgi66 @BrentToderian In my experience, French people in particular are very fond of having fresh bread at the table and many buy bread twice a day. The traditional baguette is delicious but doesn’t last very long.
Olivier Issaly@BrentToderian it’s a sweet spot : too far and you’ve eaten much of the baguette on the walk back; too close and you buy fresh baguette too often 😅
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@BrentToderian same in Amsterdam but stuff at bakeries cost 3x more than that in the supermarket.
Dr David Clements@BrentToderian When we lived in Orsay, just outside Paris, I think we had about 4 bakeries less than 5 mins away. Certainly made a difference to us!
johne@BrentToderian when I was an exchange student there a bakery was across the street from my dorm. A grocery store on the corner.
Danneau@BrentToderian Wait! That’s not fair! A Bakery? In Paris? Ever has it been thus. Also, likely there are still neighbourhood bistros (not frequented so much with modern lifestyle changes), small shops, open-air markets…and when walking isn’t an option, public transit most definitely is, along with cycling infrastructure.
Chiasm@BrentToderian I knew there was a reason Paris is my favorite city. 😊
David@BrentToderian I don't know if I would call Paris a livable and lovable city. But, yes, France is livable and lovable in parts because of those sorts of things.
Andrew Eisenberg@BrentToderian I’ve got 2 bakeries in a 5 minute walk and 3 more if I walk another 5. One of them is even French. Vancouver isn’t doing so badly.
Philip N Cohen@BrentToderian distance to decent bread is a huge issue in the US.
@philipncohen @BrentToderian Has been a growing issue for the last 4/5 decades in Europe too. Paris is an exception. Some European countries have never been into bread in a big way, never really developed a 'bread culture'. Those that had a 'bread culture' have been fighting rising costs and competition from mass-production bakeries and all too often losing. Artisanal bread-making is under pressure everywhere.