Quote Originally Posted by adaniel View Post
I lived in midtown for 4 years. In that time I NEVER found it to be difficult to go pick up something. I find people who make such claims to obviously have never lived in this area, just going off their own conclusions, which are wrong btw. If you want an easy big-box oriented lifestyle you will not find that in any urban area, period. And it's already been pointed out it's not that far of a drive to any other stores outside the core. Whole Foods and Sprouts were exactly 9 and 12 minutes from my place. CVS, Homeland, and Wal Mart were within 10, really not the end of the world. For comparison's sake, its a 15 minute walk from my friends co-op in Chelsea, NYC to the crappy little Duane Reade where they do their grocery shopping.

I am not so sure that a large scale grocery store is right around the corner for this area. I look at Uptown/Downtown Dallas, which combined has something like 75K people, and they are just now getting a Whole Foods. There's been a sad little Albertsons on the north side of Uptown, it was at best a half-step up from the 18th St Homeland. Most people I know in Uptown simply drove into other nearby districts or into Highland Park. Another poster pointed out the same thing in Denver. The point being, most big box grocery stores don't have urban environments completely figured out yet.
Why would you expect a city that you criticize for being too car oriented to have grocery stores with a walkable district?