I've lived abroad all over but make my home base in San Antonio, TX. I can speak to this somewhat. Part of it is definitely the weather, but a bigger piece is

I've lived abroad all over but make my home base in San Antonio, TX. I can speak to this somewhat. Part of it is definitely the weather, but a bigger piece is a general lack of walkability. For instance, in most places I've lived abroad I can walk for 5-7 minutes from my residence to a handful of places to eat lunch. In San Antonio, the closest restaurant (which I don't want to eat at for health reasons) is a 17 minute walk. In other places I've lived when you're walking you are surrounded by something worth seeing, something interesting. Parks, interesting architecture, public artwork, other people, etc. In San Antonio, from where I live a walk would be nothing but highways, cookie cutter houses, and cookie cutter apartments for hours on foot before I got to see anything interesting. Prague for instance has a little bit of art in everything, which makes it interesting. Even the sidewalks themselves are patterned on opposing sides of the street and change between districts and sections to be artistic. In other places I've lived for longer distances it's a simple and quick matter to access public transport on foot and then to continue on foot from where you get dropped off. In San Antonio, I'd need to walk 17 minutes to the nearest bus stop, then I have a long bus ride with multiple transfers to get to anywhere near a walkable part of the city from my residence. These cities in the US are fundamentally built with cars in mind first and foremost, have almost no public transport, and have zero attempt to make them even remotely walkable. The weather is just a small piece. I could wear a hat and get over the heat since it's mostly dry heat here, but you can't get over the fact there's nothing to /do/ or /see/ or /get to/ on foot. Walking has no purpose here. I didn't walk everywhere just for my health when I was abroad, I did it because it was useful and efficient and fun.