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One of my biggest gripes with non-NYC US cities is walkability It’s important to me because when you walk, or use public transportation, you see people you see their faces you have empathy. When you’re in a car you don’t see peoples faces, you mostly see only people that you choose to see.

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As with all things this has pros and cons

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I also don’t think this is by design, and there’s obvious benefits to a car over walking (and also public transportation) so in some sense you just have to pick your poison

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You don’t fw this vision?

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I’m fortunate to live m the central part of Paris. Everything is ~30 min walk in distance. It has been the biggest pleasure not to take public transport here

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This is why I cannot seriously consider living in another city in the US. Walkability is a massive life hack for happiness. So is living near friends :) https://livenearfriends.com/

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NY is great that way. SF is quite walkable too, just small (ya, there’s bad areas etc). I’m in Tokyo now and had the same thought seeing faces and people all day. The big diff here vs NY is families use public transit more. I see tons of kids, hard to believe there’s a birth crisis here.

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sf is very walkable imo

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I agree. Here in Mexico things are super walkable. And I’m in a town of maybe 50k. Don’t need a car. Boosts my mood so much to get to walk to the dentist, the store, to dinner, I walk to CrossFit and the gym even!

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European city design vs American city design. I spent some time in Texas, driving from home-> highway -> work and viceversa everyday. It made it harder to find motivation during the day to grab a coffee or dinner with someone. I am a big fan of walkable cities.

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Peripatetic School 🤝

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💯 cars are capsules that detach you from the reality around you

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Was reading how cars present a weird psychology state: you’re driving in a public space so public space expectations should apply, yet the car is a personal space so it queues a different set of expectations.

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every city and every person deserves walkable living spaces. Without a car I have about a 25 minute long sidewalk and 3 stores to shop at, two of which are gas stations. That's it.

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i love walkable cities too but i dunno man, i lived in Boston, America's most walkable city - and I wouldn't describe that city as having a surplus of empathy.

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Can’t agree with this more, born and raised in NY and as nice as LA is I miss all the walking I do in NYC!! Nothing like it, and I also think that’s an interesting point re: seeing people’s faces

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I walked everywhere when I lived in SF. Super walkable.

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Skateboarding ftw, makes more cities manually traversable, I still get to see humans and experience them

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Agreed, I detest how walking space is an usually not planned in our (US) infrastructure. Some cities are better, designing walking and cycling lanes when improving roads; but where I'm at, that's not even considered in the planning or discussion stages. Public trans is non-existent in big chunks of the state I'm in.

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Quality take. Spontaneity increases as well. Half the reason you’d live in a place like NY (other than being born there) is so random shit can happen that can change the course of your life, no?

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