> In the US, there used to be the idea of "sidewalk culture" > In most of the US, it's now a car culture. In my experience cars have nothing to do with this.

> In the US, there used to be the idea of "sidewalk culture" > In most of the US, it's now a car culture. In my experience cars have nothing to do with this. I grew up outside the US in a very car-required area. And yet what you call sidewalk culture was and is the norm of daily life. You go outside, meet the neighbors, play board games on the sidewalks, have beers with them deep into the evening, simply hang out outside a lot. I miss this a lot. In the US they invented an actual fake crime for the idea of hanging out outside - loitering. You try your sidewalk culture in the US and the police will show up to break up your illicit activity (eyeroll). In the US you must be at home or at work or commuting between them, or spending money shopping or in some corporate-sanctioned entertainment venue.