Another Fun Neighborhood Analysis Toy
A Trulia feature offers lots of interesting information about neighborhoods (or at least about how their residents perceive them). Share
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Last week, Planetizen published a list of interesting planning-related websites so I thought I would share the most interesting site I discovered this year: Trulia’s neighborhood overview polls. If you go to the real estate side Trulia and put a neighborhood name in the search engine, you can find not only real estate listings for that area, but also the results of a survey of Trulia users.
For example, I live in Manhattan’s Murray Hill. Of the over 100 Trulia users who were willing to answer a survey, 76 percent would walk alone at night, and only 19 percent think a car is necessary. But only 25 percent say neighbors are friendly, and only 24 percent say there are community events. (In my opinion, all of these statements are completely accurate!) By contrast, in downtown Clevelan