On 17 Jan, 13:02, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:26:15AM -0800, Mizter T wrote:
I note that the houses assessed "had to be within half a mile of the
station" - factor in a mere 10 minutes walk and the overall picture
could be quite different.

Half a mile *is* about ten minutes walk.


Hmm... you make a fair point, I guess it's just that walking fairly
briskly I cover (substantially?) more distance than that in 10 minutes
(and I'm not particularly lanky or anything!).

In fact I don't know what my walking speed is in mph, so perhaps I'll
determine it by doing an experiment or two.