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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (9 children)

You think anybody is walking on the street in the US?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm not American but my understanding is that many of those "suburban" residential blocks have sidewalks and you can walk around withing the confinement of your block. However blocks are isolated from each other and you need a car to go somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

There are places in the US, that when you buy a house or property, you are given a choice. You can build a sidewalk for it yourself, or you can pay the city/county for a sidewalk.

The thing is, if you pay the city/county for the sidewalk, they stipulate that they can build that sidewalk where ever they want. This does not have to include in front of, or anywhere near, your house

The US is a very strange place.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My block of suburbia growing up only had a sidewalk for the last 2 houses on it, everyone else didn't get one

So that's nice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I'm increasingly seeing neighborhoods where there's only a sidewalk on one side of the street...and then it terminates for no reason...and then it starts again...

It's so bizarre.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hah, I forgot that there are actually lots of suburban places that have no sidewalks. I was more talking about how no one walks and everyone drives, but it seems everyone interpreted that to mean specifically walking in the driving lanes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Depends where you live. I am in Denver and only use the car a few times a week, mostly during ski season.

The rest of the time I walk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Absolutely. There’s a lot in my neighborhood… And it’s annoying when there’s a perfectly good sidewalk right there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Plenty of them do. And I hate it. They need to be on the sidewalk, not the street.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You think otherwise?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

America build the suburbs as a big fake playground where you can walk your dog.

[–] kboy101222 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, quite a few