> I moved from New Mexico (impossible to live in without a car), to Tempe Arizona (extremely difficult to live in without a car) This is astonishing to me as a

> I moved from New Mexico (impossible to live in without a car), to Tempe Arizona (extremely difficult to live in without a car) This is astonishing to me as a person who’s visited both many times. I find Santa Fe more walkable than Tempe by (sorry) a mile. And Albuquerque at least moderately more walkable. Both according to your clarification of walkability. Again I’ve only visited all these places and haven’t lived in any, so it’s possible my impressions are distorted by that fact. I’m definitely not disputing the statement! But I’d rather walk in many of the random places in LA (that I’ve also only visited), than walk anywhere in whatever counts for the core/downtown of Tempe. > Boston I grew up in the DC metro (northern VA) but spent little time in the city before I moved to Seattle. Walkability drops sharply off from any east coast city heading west regardless of the city size, with Chicago being a major outlier. Some parts of the VA burbs are more walkable than some parts of Seattle, which is quite walkable despite terrain. It took 20 years and a family health crisis to go back and see just how much difference in density there is in the city and how much difference that makes. I’d never move back if I can help it, but I immediately felt at home dropped into this city I barely knew even growing up by it, and without autonomous access to a car even if it had occurred to me to want that.