FWIW, people drive down sidewalks in Canada too (famously in 2018). While on average the U.S. may have more violence than Canada, it’s certainly not correct say

FWIW, people drive down sidewalks in Canada too (famously in 2018). While on average the U.S. may have more violence than Canada, it’s certainly not correct say that it is “normal” in the U.S. and you would never dream of it in Canada. To frame it another way: I imagine that the safer neighborhoods in the U.S. are still safer than danger neighborhoods in Canada. The U.S. is also 10x the size of Canada, so you expect 10x as many bad things happening. (I’m also a Canadian living in the U.S. and it bugs me a bit when Canadians romanticize Canada in this way. Your perception is probably much more related to the specific places you lived in Canada and live now and the US.)