@jonm@SwiftOnSecurity It may depend on how you define walkable. Central Philadelphia is dense enough to get around on foot (more safely around some streets and blocks than others) and satisfy most of your needs, while some of the outlying neighborhood business districts are nicely compact and walkable but don't serve as full a range of needs. And in pretty much all these cities (including the Disney ones) you need good transit to get between walkable areas.
@fullyabstract@SwiftOnSecurity and inhospitable to human life for a fairly large chunk of the year, unless you have snowshoes to get over the banks the plows leaves, and a nice warm coat.
@SwiftOnSecurity at Disney World, only if you allow for mass transit in the form of monorails and gondolas. The Magic Kingdom is extremely walkable, but WDW as a whole is %##@@ huge.
@SwiftOnSecurity my brother in law, who lives in a car dependant suburb, described his neighbourhood as walkable because there is a walking trail nearby for people to get exercise.
@SwiftOnSecurity Our state capitol Montpelier would like a word. I know many people don't think an 8K city is really a city but, hey, state Capitol. Only real downside is the train station is a bit outside of town.
@SwiftOnSecurity what impresses me is how many cities are simultaneously un-walkable and un-driveable. People seem happy that cities no longer regularly burn to the ground, but maybe it’s a feature to be able to start from scratch every once and a while?
@SwiftOnSecurity people will pay a surprising amount of money to experience the kind of minimal walkability that exists in basically every other country on earth
@wjs@SwiftOnSecurity As a Canadian, *NO!* Our intense desire to never be confused with the USA overrides our normal fondness for pedantry in this one specific case.
@SwiftOnSecurity boo. come to Canada. There are a ton of walkable cities, tho we can’t guarantee you won’t get kidnapped, eaten, stomped on, beaked, clawed, or swallowed by some of our animals pals 😊
@SwiftOnSecurity Cities are walkable, at least in some amount of the historic neighborhods. I'm in St. Louis MO, and do not have to get in a car at all. Husband even walks or bikes to his federal government job. True for every city, though freeway overpasses make walking less pleasant than it would be.