I mean, there’s a bunch of factors to this some social some geographical, but it turns out, the US has almost uniqiely bad design of towns and city with the auto-lobby holding a firm grip on their balls.
I’m not in a particularly desirable area… I’m also not in the US though.
A bug reason why the only desirable areas tend to be walkable in the US is just because there are so few.
If you promoted widespread walkable city-design, then prices will become more accessible to everyone. Even the poorest areas lf my city are super walkable, even moreso than many of the richer areas.
I mean, being poor sucks everywhere, but there’s a lot of intermediate steps between dense well-designed city and car-centric hellhole.
Arguably the latter is way worse if you can’t afgord a car.
It tends to be much easier in walkable/well designed areas because you have a much higher density of grocery stores.
I have about 8 within a 2-10 minute walk. So I don’t really do a big weekly shop, but rather a couple small ones throughout the week.
So yeah, depends hugely on how human-friendly the area is
Look at Mr Fancypants, with enough money to live in a desirable area and have enough time to go for strolls to the grocery store(s).
Seriously though, this is not the norm in the states.
I mean, there’s a bunch of factors to this some social some geographical, but it turns out, the US has almost uniqiely bad design of towns and city with the auto-lobby holding a firm grip on their balls.
Literally every town or city in Europe is like this.
I’m not in a particularly desirable area… I’m also not in the US though.
A bug reason why the only desirable areas tend to be walkable in the US is just because there are so few.
If you promoted widespread walkable city-design, then prices will become more accessible to everyone. Even the poorest areas lf my city are super walkable, even moreso than many of the richer areas.
Which is why there’s traffic
human-friendly as in you can live there in poverty or human-friendly as in it’s great if you’re middle class?
I mean, being poor sucks everywhere, but there’s a lot of intermediate steps between dense well-designed city and car-centric hellhole. Arguably the latter is way worse if you can’t afgord a car.
I actually live mostly surrounded by public housing! But I’m also not in the US…
The poorest part of my city is also the most densely populated and has an absolute shit-load of walkable grocery stores.