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>No sidewalks by the way This is something that blows me away whenever I hear about America. Are people okay with that? I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I'm gen

• jewayne 3y ago
  The range of opinions is huge. I got into an argument here on HN with a fellow American who argued that sidewalks are nothing but legalized trespassing. There are, in fact, many Americans who choose to live in neighborhoods without sidewalks, largely because they already drive everywhere. That said, for the past 30 years or so most new neighborhoods have included sidewalks.
• Clent 3y ago
  City walks are typically paid for and maintained by the property owner. Suburban sprawl means a lot of sidewalks frontage to pay for. It's ultimately a matter of American's being silly about taxes and paying for public goods. We go without because taxes are evil, public goods are socialism. We literally allowing our dogma to lessen our life expectancies and cap our quality of life. It's a sort of a unique American mental illness we refer to as freedom.
• weatherlight 3y ago
  As a Brooklynite without a driver's license, American suburbia, like my wife's family's lovely NJ town, feels hostile due to its car dependency, lack of sidewalks, etc. I had the opportunity to spend 8 weeks last summer in Barcelona and I thought Brooklyn was one of the most walkable cities in the world. Its not about just being walkable, it's also about public places, being able to "loiter." having roads where cars and can not go, etc.