What is the closest business to where you live?

[NightWatcher]

And do you frequent it?

Mine is a mediocre Italian restaurant. The bad thing is they used to be a real good restaurant. I haven't been there in a couple of years and I guess it's time I see if they are still mediocre.

[arcane1]

1. A Peets coffee downstairs on the 1st floor.

I'm there every morning

[R B Garr]

94. Peet's is the best! I go there every day as well.

They originated in Berkeley and our last trip up that way, we wanted to go to the original location, but there were about three locations in Berkeley and we didn't know which one it was. We are Peetniks to the max! Even our most recent trip to Monterey, I drove out of the way to go to the Peet's on Munras Street, and the man behind the counter knew all the locations I go to by where we live in Orange County. It would be heaven to be in walking distance of a Peet's. I'm jealous!

[Scuba]

2. Dairy farm. Closest retail business is a farm implement dealer.

I got out of farming in 1966.

[Generic Brad]

3. There is a sandwich shop across the street

And I have never frequented it. They are not open when I go to work and they are closed when my work day ends. And they are not open on weekends when I am available. Stupid sandwich shop.

[LisaLynne]

4. I think probably Mr. Fresh ...

drive up convenience store. Once in a while, if I'm lazy and out of Pepsi or milk, I'll pull on through.

[HeiressofBickworth]

5. A small strip mall 3 blocks away

with a QFC grocery, a pub, pet supply store, laundry, game store, exercise place, hair salon, 2 small restaurants. I go to QFC often (I don't do the main household grocery shopping, tho.) and both restaurants (neither one of which is a chain). Oh, and of course, Starbucks. There's one inside the QFC and the other is across the parking lot. I never need to go far for the little bit of shopping I do.

[valerief]

6. Mine is a cemetery. I haven't been a paying customer there. Yet. nt

[sammytko]

53. Mine is a nursing home!

Go to visit, but haven't spent the night yet!

[El Supremo]

7. It closed.

Some Cajun joint that took over a Dairy Queen.

Speaks well of my neighborhood.

[kentauros]

8. A dive bar, next to the railroad tracks.

I don't even know what it's called (because I've never been to it, nor do I want to go.) There's an even "divier" dive bar further down a quarter mile or so called the "Chez Lounge" and I have never been to it, either

[Chan790]

9. My own.

Self employed and work from home. I daresay the 2' between my bedroom and office makes my nearest business the closest nearest business of any DUer. (Adjacent doors on the end of a hallway. I can stumble the distance between my desk and my bed without waking up...and have)

Excluding my own, there's a woman running an antique shop out of her garage next-door. I don't frequent her because she's a vulture...she literally befriends people so they'll leave her things in their wills, things that she sells as soon as they are dead.

[HERVEPA]

10. A Wawa

and visit fairly often.

[femmocrat]

11. A little mom and pop corner store.

About 4 miles away. I never go in there because it smells like smoke.

[baldguy]

12. A local pizza shop.

But it's not very good pizza. If I go one more block in any direction, I can get Indian, Chinese, a Pizza Hut, a Dunkin Donuts, and two other better local pizza shops.

[RebelOne]

13. Anything you would want is practically around the corner

from my house--gas stations, supermarkets, restaurants, shopping malls. But, of course, I am in Woodstock, GA, a suburb just northwest of Atlanta.

[OriginalGeek]

14. Small family owned sub shop

down the block. I've lived in this house for almost 30 years and the sub shop has been here since before I got here. I ate there a couple times about 24 years ago but never liked it - we went there for lunch a few times when I worked at a boat place a little further down the street.

Then, during election season, I noticed they had put up some Romney/Ryan signs and I was glad I never made a habit of eating there. Fuck them dopes.

[GoCubsGo]

15. A Waffle House.

It's 3 blocks away. I have never eaten at it or any other WH in the 25+ years I have lived in WH country. Nor, do I have any desire to do so.

[Jamaal510]

16. Near my Arcata apartment,

there is a strip mall where they have a Westside Pizza, a Safeway, and a Rite Aid. Near my parents' house in East Oakland, the closest business is "Quality Donuts", near Burchalter Elementary.
I go to Safeway twice a week for groceries, Westside Pizza and Rite Aid roughly once every two months, and to Quality Donuts for a dozen donuts once a week during my school breaks.

[Art_from_Ark]

34. Burchalter Elementary...

I wonder if it's named after this guy?

[rug]

17. A gas station. Their coffee sucks.

I buy gas and cigarettes there.

[Throd]

18. Very good Chinese food at reasonable prices.

[bigwillq]

19. Shell Gas Station

I go there quite often since it's the nearest business when I get out of my general neighborhood.

[riderinthestorm]

20. Another training horse farm next door to ours

My street isn't very long for a rural road but there's four big training farms along here.

[CVN-68]

21. Pizza Hut.

Love their cheese stuffed crust pizza's.

[Little_Wing]

22. a vineyard, Byington Winery, about 4 miles down the road

and yes, I have dropped in a few times. Great wine!

[mrmpa]

23. Right across the street.......

there is an Applebees and a Mad Mex. Don't go to either. Across the street to the left is a small family owned Italian Restaurant, been there for over 40 years. It has a nice bar, wine list is nice and food is very goo, that's where I go.

[Rhythm]

24. Mine is a towing and recovery service...

I 'try' not to frequent it, but if i was in a jam, they're the first ones i would call...

[fizzgig]

25. there's a lot right around me

eye care center, plastic surgeon, water fixture company, moving company, elementary school, city rec center and (plant) nursery but i don't go to any of them. the closest i go to is the 7-11 and a little mexican restaurant, both about a mile away.

[csziggy]

26. The horse boarding business on my farm

I used to run it, now I lease the facilities to others and the people running it take care of my horses.

The next closest business is a computer repair business almost across the street - I don't use him since I know a good liberal who runs a computer business in town. He's worked on my computers off and on for over twenty years.

Then a couple of miles up the road is a country store on the National Register of Historic Places that is known for their smoked sausage: http://www.bradleyscountrystore.com/

[mnhtnbb]

28. The best coffee house in Chapel Hill called Caffe Driade

http://caffedriade.com/

Yes, I have been there...but I don't often go out just for coffee.

And an antique store called Whitehall at the Villa Antiques. I've NEVER been in the shop,
even though we've lived here almost 14 years. Used to frequent antique shops
a lot when we lived in MO and NE, but gave up antiquing when we moved here.

http://www.whitehallantiques.com/

[treestar]

29. a Seven Eleven

I don't go to it all that often. I used to for coffee but now there are so many other options.

[KamaAina]

41. Same here

but in the Bay Area, even 7-Eleven has a decent craft beer selection. They even have Lagunitas' limited-release cappuccino stout!

[Blue_Tires]

74. +1

I'm a regular most mornings...Coffee, gasoline, and a Washington Post

[stevenleser]

30. Hard to measure. There are 19,000 Restaurants within 5 miles of me. That's just for starters.

[Arugula Latte]

46. Gotta love a big city!

[LWolf]

31. A golf resort,

2 miles down the quiet, rural highway, which is the nearest paved road.

There are greens, a bar, a couple of restaurants, a store for golf stuff, a couple of swimming pools, hiking trails, and other areas for other events. The local farmer's market meets there.

It's another 5 miles to the nearest store at the edge of town; a shopping center with a grocery, a starbucks, a mcdonald's, a bank, a cleaners, a couple of other restaurants and hair cutting salon.

[CBGLuthier]

32. Auto Glass Repair Shop

Only when I have to.

[UncleYoder]

33. I assume you mean a retail store

and not a business run out of the house.

That would be the IGA. It's 5 miles to town (we live out, way out). It's really small, the aisles so narrow we joke Gene should make them one way. But he does have the best meat counter in a 50 mile radius. Sucks to go in there on a weekend in the summer because of all the lake people stopping to get their grilling supplies.

[a la izquierda]

35. A neighborhood dive bar across the street from a church.

The bar is pretty good, actually. Has a decent beer selection and lots of friendly, WV locals.

[cyberswede]

36. Our local phone company is a few blocks away

We always had wicked fast DSL.

[DFW]

37. An absolutely fabulous Greek restaurant

About 50 meters from our front door. Our neighbors love it, too, and we often make it a foursome. A mini UN when we do, as four countries are represented when we go.

[pipi_k]

38. Wouldn't ordinarily

post a photo of it except it's a piece of Americana...


They don't sell gas there anymore, but the restaurant part is still open. The inside is straight from the late 1940s to mid 1950s.

We go there every Sunday morning to have breakfast and chat with some of the other locals. Lots of fun.







Sort of a funny story about that big tree behind the "Gas" sign over the gas pumps...It's been cut down because it was rotting, but before that, and when they were selling gas, one of the owners (they are mid-70s) would have a cult following of turkey buzzards sitting in that tree watching him pump gas. One of the last full service stations... Anyway, after the tree came down, they just sort of flew around aimlessly (he said he had to keep moving or else they'd think he was dead) until they found another tree suitable for their surveillance.

Now that they don't sell gas anymore, the buzzards have moved on...

[Raffi Ella]

39. a Church

I pass two before I get to the gas station and shopping center that is just half a mile from my house.


I don't frequent the Churches, I do use the 24hr gas station.

[Auggie]

40. A Honda/GMC dealership

Never went there until last year when we were babysitting a friends Honda Element.

[Wait Wut]

42. Dry Cleaner, Flooring company, car wash.

And...no. They're all extremely rude, way overpriced and do lousy work.

I take my (limited) dry cleaning to a place about 2 miles from here, if we end up doing floors we'll be headed to the valley (Phx) and I take my car to a do-it-yourself place.

[bluedigger]

43. A grain mill and a salon are both a block away in different directions.

I have no use for either. There is also a Catholic church (which I consider a business) that I also have no need for.

[MissMillie]

44. In one direction it's a bank and a social club

I don't use the bank, but my guy plays billiards for the Acadien Social Club.

In the other direction it's a Laundromat and a package store. I don't use the Laundromat but I do frequent the "packie."

[Arugula Latte]

45. A cute neighborhood coffee house in a converted old house.

I can walk there and yes I go to it -- love it!

[Shrek]

47. Either a FedEx terminal or the 16th green of a golf course

They're more or less equidistant.

[sakabatou]

48. Grocery shop

[Autumn]

49. Feed store. Often.

[Jokerman]

50. A post office.

Just beyond that is a mexican restaurant that usually leads the county in health code violations.

Next, but still within stumbling distance, is a restaurant/pub with an amazing selection of beer, or so I hear.

[jwirr]

51. A store like the little stores with convience items. About 3 miles away. This particular store is

located on the reservation and is pretty expensive. When we can we go to town but if you forget milk or something else that we need it is handy.

[elleng]

52. Grocery store, and yes.

About 3 miles away. Also gas stations (occasionally,) and Walgreens (rarely.) TexMex restaurant: once. (I've only been here since September/October.)

[madamesilverspurs]

54. A used book store.

This makes me inordinately happy for some reason...

[handmade34]

55. mile or so down the road...

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[CherokeeDem]

56. How lovely and quaint...

The maple products and cheese caught my eye... ummmm, and fresh lobster roll. What a nice place.

[handmade34]

62. ...and you can still buy Joe's Pond Ice Out tickets!!!!

https://www.joespondvermont.com/ticket1.php

[CherokeeDem]

63. That is so cool!!

As sick as I am of ice and snow at the moment.... this is great. Thanks for posting!

[CherokeeDem]

57. Unfortunately....

a Kroger grocery store. How I dislike Kroger. Lived in Florida for ten years and miss Publix!!!

[smoopie]

58. comic book store

I don't go there often but my daughters boyfriend goes there all the time.

[Codeine]

86. I'd be bankrupt if I lived that close to a comic book store.

Mine is up to half-an-hour away with traffic.

[Hippo_Tron]

59. A dry-cleaner and I never go because there's a cheaper one a block down

[Kali]

60. the closest business to me IS where I live

the next closest businesses are also ranches, though one is a guest ranch. After that we have a couple antique/junk shops and then ...

[mwdem]

61. Grocery store, coffee shop, Kohl's...

Game shop, World Market, and quite a few restaurants. Very handy to walk to.

[Squinch]

64. A little luncheonette a half block away. Everyone in the neighborhood goes there for gossip

and eggs and homefries - my favorite things!

[KatyMan]

65. A Shell station...

it's pretty convenient.

[panader0]

66. Jem's Feed

I buy my propane there. They sell alfalfa, straw and most every kind of feed. I also get my birdseed there. Lately they have added gun sales. I built the warehouse years ago. They are quite repub, but decent people.

[Common Sense Party]

67. It's either the liquor store or the auto body repair shop across the street (coincidence?)

Both are about 3.4 miles down the road from me.

[Ex Lurker]

68. A guy down the road a bit sells custom made western wear out of his house

belts, that sort of thing. The closest full service business is a tire store/auto repair place.

[Sherman A1]

69. Gas Station

and Yes, I do frequent it for gasoline, a cup of coffee or tea and sometimes the weekend newspaper.

[yuiyoshida]

70. JAPANTOWN!

[kwassa]

81. L.A.?

if so, I've eaten there.

[yuiyoshida]

83. San Francisco

LA Japantown is called Little Tokyo.

[kwassa]

88. True.

I thought I recognized the background.

[Art_from_Ark]

89. I'm in Big Tokyo

And boy, is it big

[Earth_First]

71. A mom & pop greasy spoon...

I have breakfast there every Tuesday morning with my father.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

72. medi/pedi salon across the street

[patricia92243]

73. Brand new mini-strip mall. Because it is so new, I can't even remember what business are in it.

When it gets warmer, I'll walk up that way and frequent some of the shops.

[magical thyme]

75. a diner in one direction and a convenience store in the other

both about 4 miles away. Across the street from the convenience store, so a few more feet of driving, is a farm and hardware store where I buy my horse's bedding.

[laundry_queen]

76. Starbucks

and yes, I do if I have some gift cards or free drink coupons, or if I'm trying to bribe my teens to do something, then we go for some fancy coffee (well, my 13 doesn't get coffee, she gets hot chocolate or something else, but the 16.5 year old will drink some at times)

[Iggo]

77. Some law office.

And no.

[woodsprite]

78. Malin's sub shop -- Yup, we're frequent flyers there! n/t

[Broken_Hero]

79. A local gas/mini mart

is about 4 miles from us, and we use them often for gas/cigs/soda.

[aikoaiko]

80. private school

[kwassa]

82. CVS in a strip mall, Einstein Brother's bagels, Subway, Chinese, Tex-mex, Ledo's pizza,

Dollar stores, two of them, some empty storefronts, the Russian gourmet shop went belly up, the Giant grocery store is now Global and stocks interesting immigrant foods from around the world.

and a bunch of other things, not terribly interesting.

[jmowreader]

84. Across the street is the most expensive gas station in town

Every once in a while they'll apologize by lowering the price of their gas to the city average, but their pumps are set up to recognize a debit card as a credit card and charge you 6 cents/gallon for the privilege of using it so no, I don't go there.

Right next to my apartment building (their building is six feet from mine) is a fast food place that's been there so long it used to close for the winter. (It also used to be a bona fide Drive In with carhops and all.) Sometimes I go there when I want to grab a quick bite before going to work on Tuesday.

On the other side of the building is a big office complex that contains the North Idaho bureaus of one of the Spokane TV stations and the Spokane paper, and a bunch of lawyers' offices.

Go past the gas station and down a block, and you'll find the Chamber of Commerce, a pretty decent coffee shop that roasts on the premises, an iffy Oriental restaurant, and the beginning of the downtown bars-boutiques-bistros district.

If you go straight up the hill you'll find the city quickie-wed chapel and some professional offices. A block past that is the phone book publisher my company owns.

After that there's a Christian Daycare Center, and right next to that is my office. (To all the folks who cut down their carbon footprint by purchasing a Prius to drive to work, I fart in your general direction. If you want to seriously cut your carbon footprint, move to walking distance from work. I buy gas once a month whether I need to or not, and sometimes I could get away with not.)

[otherone]

85. don hugos

on the corner of bush ave. and fullerton st.. SA resturant.. We go there quite a bit and would never go if they weren't right in the hood.

[Codeine]

87. I live four short blocks from a neighborhood grocery. I'm there every day

because I've been working for the company since '89.

[IrishAyes]

90. Did the owners change?

[Incitatus]

91. Starbucks nt

[IrishAyes]

92. The main part of this town where I retired for financial reasons in

RedNeckLand/flyover country is only 12 blocks square. The church is catty corner across the alley, and the bank I use is just a block farther. The bank I use is only about one more block, and the town square with a few businesses still there including my favorite hardware store, weekly newspaper, and a lumber yard. 2 funeral homes since the whole county has to come here. In a different direction from home there's a nice public library that I'll miss when the GOP manages to shut it down. About half a mile away there's a decent grocery store about half the size or less than a real supermarket store and a few tiny other shops like a pharmac. 2 gas stations; stuff like that.

[Sognefjord]

93. A community college

Nice new building too. Half a block away. It's next to our high school. Half a block away is a new church also.