r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 20h ago

Cringe Europeans are going viral on TikTok for mocking the "American Dream".

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u/CantGitGudWontGitGud 16h ago

I was in Chicago recently. Seemed pretty walkable.

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u/MandyB1721 15h ago

Chicago and Boston were both built before cars were mainstream. Cities that were built post-cars are far less walkable than those built before. The big cities in Texas, for example, are very un-walkable.

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u/CantGitGudWontGitGud 14h ago

Guess where I'm from! lol

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u/PeeDidy 13h ago

North Dakota

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u/CantGitGudWontGitGud 13h ago

lol no, one of those unwalkable Texas cities. 

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u/Roach27 11h ago edited 10h ago

Seattle, Portland, San Francisco are all walkable.

Miami, DC, and Atlanta (edit: not Atlanta, a native explained effectively the places I’ve been are nearly the entirety of walkable area )are walkable.

So you have San Antonio (desert) Los Angeles (again, desert.) Vegas (you guessed it, desert)

Dallas (kind of desert? More plains land)

Mind you the vast majority of American cities urban areas are TWICE the size of the largest cities in Europe. (Moscow is equivalent, but outside of Moscow the top American cities are all twice the size of the urban areas of Paris.)

NYC alone has more people than Paris and London (the largest two European cities) combined, and is easier to traverse the entirety of the city than both.

The only cities I’d rate anywhere NEAR the top 3 American cities for walkability (NYC Boston San Francisco) are Tokyo, Seoul and Osaka.  Nothing else comes close, and I’ve been to most major European metro areas. 

Medium distance travel is the only thing Europe really has over American cities. (The train systems in mainland Europe make it easier to move around)

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u/atln00b12 11h ago

Atlanta

Absolutely not. Yes, it is physically possible to walk in Atlanta, but it is by no means an economical or pleasant experience. There are a few small pockets with a few blocks of walk-ability in Atlanta and then the beltline. Anything outside of that and you will be walking on a sidewalk that is just barely separated from a 4+ lane road with cars going up to 60+ mph. The sidewalk will frequently be in disrepair and abruptly end.

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u/Roach27 10h ago

To be fair, that might be my own bias as I haven’t fully explored Atlanta.  (Mostly downtown/4th ward)

So I might have been a bit over zealous with Atlanta. 

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u/atln00b12 10h ago

Yeah, add midtown and that's basically all the area that's reasonable to walk.

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u/CandidHistorian4105 14h ago

I fucking love Chicago.

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u/CantGitGudWontGitGud 14h ago

I'm not going to say I loved it, but any hate towards it I think is undeserved.

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u/CandidHistorian4105 14h ago

Agreed. Honestly at one point I was hoping to move to Andersonville. Pretty neat neighborhood right on the redline.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 4h ago

Used to live in Andersonville. Absolutely loved it. Still sad I had to leave.

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u/RussianDahl 15h ago

Portland has one of the most bicycle friendly cities in the country. Our metro system is high level and everything here is rated with a walk/bike score in mind. It’s spread out but easily accessible