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There's places in the world where your suburban cul-de-sac can actually be located in a walkable city and the grocery store is very close despite living in a suburb where most people have cars.
Even suburbs can be a lot better than they are in the US.
You could argue this is where I am now, in the us, in an inner suburb of a major city
I would really miss all the suburban niceties like a deck, grill, basement, garage and driveway, my own spot of land, a house.
I don’t drive very much anymore but it’s an EV. However a lot of that is between online shopping and part time work from home I’ve really cut back on routine drives, so my percentage of longer trips to car usage is higher
EDIT: on the other hand a lot of it is attitude. Especially with discussions over why some people never clear snow from their sidewalks, it’s very clear that even here many people don’t see walking as an option for anything. There’s no reason to clear the sidewalks in winter because the idea that people may want to walk is just so alien
Technically I'm in a city. It's just suburban and car-centric. If they wanted to make it more walkable and add public transport, I'd love that, as long as my kids still have their space to ride bikes, and my wife still has her car.
Even then it's fairly walkable. I walk my daughter to school when the weather and time allow for it. I could walk to a grocery store; I just couldn't transport my groceries home.
But that wasn't the question.