Like if it's even an option for you at all, make the move. It's such a better quality of life it's crazy, cannot be exaggerated.
Obviously not easy, but if it's even at all potentially feasible do what you can to make it happen.
Like if it's even an option for you at all, make the move. It's such a better quality of life it's crazy, cannot be exaggerated.
Obviously not easy, but if it's even at all potentially feasible do what you can to make it happen.
the only part of the US that is walkable is the part built before cars, so mostly just the northeast, like NYC and north. any other cities suck for walking compared to anywhere else on earth.
the west coast is the most inhuman landscape ever created on planet earth. its is so ugly and awful.
Portland and Seattle are lovely and have many walkable neighborhoods. SF is expensive, and so is the entire bay really, but Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville are very walkable and ever so slightly more affordable compared to being on the Peninsula itself. Many of the Central Valley cities are unwalkable car based hell holes, and so is much of SoCal for that matter, but I have friends who live in Sacramento and they won't shut up about how happy they are to go car free and how the city is dramatically expanding bike infrastructure. It's very neighborhood dependent still, but I don't see why they'd be lying to me about it and they did indeed sell their cars in favor of ebikes, so the proof is in the pudding there.
Davis, and the areas near it, is famously bike friendly. There are bike lanes pretty much everywhere, and the car drivers are acclimated to bike transit enough that they aren’t crazy dangerous.
Sacramento is a bigger city, so it’s probably a bit harder to really bike transform it fully, but hopefully the process continues.
I used to live in a certain part of San Diego and did fine there without a car for about a year. I was able to walk to a convenience store/the beach, I was able to bus to the nearest shopping center/my job and catch the train to downtown. Had to leave that neighborhood though because I lost my "friend from college" room rate and there was no way I could afford what everybody else was charging.
Parts of the midwest are old enough as well. There's lanes where it was clearly designed before cars were everywhere.