I've been traveling down the US east coast in a sailboat last fall, so I was a pedestrian every time I went ashore. The northern states weren't so bad in terms

I've been traveling down the US east coast in a sailboat last fall, so I was a pedestrian every time I went ashore. The northern states weren't so bad in terms of safety; in Gloucester MA cars would stop to let you cross as soon as you were facing the street. In contrast, NJ was pretty bad; I had to wait for 2-3 minutes _at a crosswalk_ before I could cross because cars just wouldn't stop. At least the infrastructure was relatively good. The worst was Florida, though. There's a shocking lack of just basic infrastructure, like sidewalks stopping randomly (what am I supposed to do, take flight?) or just outright absent with no shoulder either. One time I was walking on such a street (and this was a city street, not a highway or anything) and one of these very large pickup trucks almost hit me in the face with his side mirror because he wouldn't give me space... I made a "come on" gesture in protest, and the guy stopped in the middle of the street, got out of his truck, and started berating me! As if that wasn't enough, just a few minutes later, I got honked at because I apparently wasn't crossing the intersection fast enough... But I had my pedestrian crossing light on so technically I had the right of way. There's also a disturbing lack of public transport in Florida, for example they have the "Space Coast Transportation Authority" which has a few bus routes, but none that go to the Kennedy Space Center. The car brain is unreal around these parts.