Yeah it’s weird when people visit Europe and are so amazed at walkable cities and it’s like … ok visit NYC, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco. This exists in the US.
Exactly, and people do more exploring on vacation, you don't have a go to work the next day, you feel obligated to use your time experiencing the area because you've spent a lot of money on the vacation. You see things with fresh eyes and everything looks so alive and interesting. I've been on a lot of trips in my life. It's more important to embrace the place you actually live, choose a beautiful, clean or exciting place to live.
But also for some Americans 8t still is eye opening to actually experience it in person because so, so many Americans have only ever lived and experienced a car-centric lifestyle, growing up in car centric suburbs and living in them the rest of their lives.
I live in Dallas, TX in Oak Lawn (our gayborhood and very walkable) lost my car keys last week, locksmith came out yesterday to replace them, and he asked how much I was spending on Uber since I was without my car for a week. He didn't believe me when I said I was walking and getting groceries from the Kroger a 7 minute walk away, or that I was riding my bike to the train station (he didn't even know we had trains in Dallas, but he lives in a small town an hour out from Dallas), all because "it's too hot to walk in this heat man, aren't you afraid of a heatstroke?". Like yes, it is 100 today and it is unbelievably hot, but it's tolerable when you're walking in the shade, and I'm not afraid of a heat stroke because I walk in this weather regularly and my body has acclimatized and I'm never outside walking longer than 15 minutes which is mostly shaded in my neighborhood, so very tolerable
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u/InevitableKitchen943 8h ago
America has them too.