I think most people (guess) live in a place they can walk in, yet choose not to. Every small town, every safe large city area. I think the non-safe areas are qu

I think most people (guess) live in a place they can walk in, yet choose not to. Every small town, every safe large city area. I think the non-safe areas are quite small comparatively speaking. Then there is the simple notion, take the time to go somewhere to walk. I have relatives that do this, I know it's not impossible based on your living location. If you want to bring economics into this, then there's a vastly more complicated topic. Yes, it's way easier to walk in Tokyo (any different than New York?), but I was also in rural Japan, and there was no more unique motivation to walk there than in rural USA. I think social cohesion can be broken with just the introduction of smartphones and social media, so sure, it's possible suburbification made some things worse. But it's now socially acceptable to discuss and display on public media what used to be considered perverted and depraved, did suburbs cause this? What society can be decent when being decent isn't valued by society?