I walk 15-20k steps daily (~12-15km... some of that is running). Have walked or run this much for most of my adult life. I grew up in Pennsylvania and Ohio, ha

I walk 15-20k steps daily (~12-15km... some of that is running). Have walked or run this much for most of my adult life. I grew up in Pennsylvania and Ohio, have lived in Texas, Georgia, and California, and spent significant time in the Carolinas, Alabama, and Tennessee. I've never had any problems when I've been on foot. I've had a lot of problems on a bike, though. Had someone try to run my off the road in North Carolina, have had people throw shit at me in California (central coast area), and have had lots of derogatory shit yelled at me (I never knew riding a bike made you gay, I always thought it was something very different!) by people driving by basically everywhere. Most of those happened in places without dedicated biking infrastructure or lanes. Where I'm at now, in SoCal, I haven't had any problems or otherwise heard anything anecdotally.