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Buy the ones that give the best protection. Ankles are hard to rebuild. Take trainers if you want to walk.
But unless you're riding Enduro just get some adv boots.
I have some Sidi crossfire for off road. They've earnt their cost several times when I've dropped the bike on my ankle. If you're riding off road, you will come off.
Boots will also last a long long time, so the upfront cost will even out quickly.
Edit: actually maybe my comment isn't very helpful. Go try a bunch on and see how they feel and move. I do like goretex though, dry feet are nice.
skinny-
What Skinny said. I wear MX boots off road, always. You don't even have to fall off to break an ankle - I've sprained mine casing a jump and running over my own foot. The second one sounds silly but is easy to do.
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Ankle protection FTW. Decked it once in the city on a streak of diesel at walking pace down a hill, pannier rack sent my ankle the wrong way. Broke one small bone and a sprain but bothered me for ages and that was with wearing reasonable boots, if I was wearing touring boots it would have been a proper break for sure.
Jung
BrickMan
On the topic of safety kit I'm in the market for boots...
I'm trying to decide between two Alpinestars offerings:
Tech 7 Enduro Drystar
Toucan Gore-Tex
I can't decide if the Tech 7 would just be overkill and pointless for anything other than hard-core ADV riding, they're supposed to be ok to walk in compared to proper MX boots but obviously will be a lot less comfortable than Toucan which is more of an ADV/ Touring boot...
I'm probably going to do most of my riding on road but I really do fancy the idea of some off reading in the future and they're both spendy enough that I don't want to have to buy twice...
I've got some Rev'it riding sneakers for very casual stuff so I don't know that I'd entirely mind the Tech 7?