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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

What are top five best walkable cities in the US that are also affordable?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

bear in mind that american "cities" are basically small countries, i'm sure there's at least a hundred "towns" or districts of "cities" that are walkable and affordable, but the "cities" are so stupid huge that they have a bunch of variation in them.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 15 points 2 days ago

They're not affordable, sadly. Walkable cities are so amazingly great that people will pay a lot of money to live in them. And they have to, because the demand is huge, but they're illegal to build, so the supply is tiny.

In short, Americans are dumb.

[–] shoo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I could name 5, period

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What I was afraid of. Walkable cities is a great a noble thing. It just sucks we aren't making those in America.

It's all relative. Some cities are more walkable than others. Declaring the entire US to be so unwalkable you should give up comparing them is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

[–] weastie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Pennsylvania's got you covered with Pittsburgh and Philly.

Pittsburgh has great walking but its transit is quite limited. Philly has good transit (for USA).

Both very affordable compared to other cities.

Chicago is pretty similar to Philly in terms of affordability, walkability and transit.

[–] reminiscensdeus@eviltoast.org 3 points 2 days ago

Chicago is really affordable for its size IMO. At least comparatively I guess.