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The lack of large plazas and walkable streets in the US really bums me out. I wish I was European, there I said it.
by webwielder2 4y ago
The lack of large plazas and walkable streets in the US really bums me out. I wish I was European, there I said it.
- Godel_unicode 4y agoThey’re taking applicants.
- refurb 4y agoI’ve walked all over US cities. Hell I’ve walked from one side of SF to the other.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoSame. But those parts of SF tend to be super unaffordable.
- presentation 4y agoYou also have to know them well enough to avoid the shady areas, not look muggable, not be female, not be small, not carry anything that looks remotely valuable, and only walk during daylight hours or else you're taking a significant risk (though all of that didn't save me from random verbal abuse when walking around the city or taking public transit nonetheless). And you have to be cool with places being totally filthy, and regularly cross 6-lane roads on a regular basis (yes, most of SF is like this). Plus you have to have a thick skin to see the abject horrors of homelessness and drug addiction everyday and convince yourself, "yup, this is normal and totally fine". Yeah, that was fine for me when I was a 20 year old, relatively large man who didn't know that the rest of the world has much more hospitable places for pedestrians and human beings generally, but no thanks today. Kinda depressing that at least from a walkability standpoint it's about as good as it gets for the USA.
- ars 4y agoEurope is pretty small - just pick a small subset of the US that meets your needs and enjoy it. The US has a huge variety. If a small section is good, you don't need the rest to change.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoThere aren’t many small sections of america that are walkable like europe, and the small areas that are happen to be very unaffordable
- presentation 4y agoUh, Europe and the USA have similar area (with Europe being slightly larger). Though Europe has 2.5x the population.