I have one in my kitchen 
. We had waffles last weekend.
All streets have sidewalks here and you can walk, but you would take all day to get to the grocery store and back since my nice local one shut its doors. Purposeful walking to shops or post office for instance is out of the question for a lot of the year because of heat and humidity or extreme cold. You get a few weeks in autumn when walking is pleasant, and sometimes in spring (but we can go from heating on to AC on overnight). People ride bikes a lot however, and skateboarding and in line skating are very popular.
We also have alleys round here. All the streets are laid out in a grid pattern with houses facing either east or west for the most part along the north-south streets, with alleys running n-s at the back of everyone's back yard, separating backyards from each other and allowing access to garages, most of which open onto the alleys. The wheelie bins are all in the alley too, and the garbage trucks make their rounds through the alleys.
I had a basketball hoop attached to the detached garage and the DCs would play basketball in the alley when they were old enough to like Bball. Most of the time, the children on the street played out front when they were small, on the sidewalk and the parkway and the very small front yards. Having no walls or fences separating front gardens makes for a lot of conviviality in a neighbourhood. The walled in front gardens of Britain and Ireland look very strange to me now.