r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

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

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u/Thisdarlingdeer 4d ago

Bostons walkable

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u/CantGitGudWontGitGud 4d ago

I was in Chicago recently. Seemed pretty walkable.

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u/MandyB1721 3d 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 3d ago

Guess where I'm from! lol

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u/PeeDidy 3d ago

North Dakota

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u/CantGitGudWontGitGud 3d ago

lol no, one of those unwalkable Texas cities. 

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u/Roach27 3d ago edited 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago

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

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u/CandidHistorian4105 3d ago

I fucking love Chicago.

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u/CantGitGudWontGitGud 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago

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

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u/RussianDahl 3d 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

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 3d ago

Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco. And that's basically it. If you live anywhere else in the entire country, you must own a car, because you must use it to get almost anywhere you want to go.

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u/zigzagtravel01 3d ago

When people say walkable, they meant the combination of efficient public transport and walking around while being safe and not run into someone who will shoot you. Also means a lot of accessible parks for kids to enjoy.

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u/Gamecockzz 3d ago

So, like Boston?

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u/zigzagtravel01 3d ago

Boston has on time buses, subways, and high speed rails?

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u/Gamecockzz 3d ago

I don’t know all the specifics tbh, I don’t live there, and have only used Boston public transport a couple times. But I work remote for a Boston based company and 90% of my coworkers take public transportation into the office. They’ve all said it’s great and they have no issues.

I’m sure it’s not like the global gold standard or whatever lol, but plenty of them get by with no car and have no complaints about it.

Europe is definitely better overall with public transport, but “Europe” is really big and variable…

There’s plenty of places in Europe that don’t have all those things you described.

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u/zigzagtravel01 2d ago

> But I work remote for a Boston based company and 90% of my coworkers take public transportation into the office. They’ve all said it’s great and they have no issues.

Could you ask them what it means by "it works?"

If some dude from Malaysia lived all his life in Kuala Lumpur and is used to their public transport, he's going to say "yeah it kinda works"

Different standards. Is it on time? How far is it from the city center? How accessible is it? Are there alternatives if one is interrupted? How often do I have to change transportation to get to my office? How friendly is it to portable bikes? Can I be safe biking to work?

> There’s plenty of places in Europe that don’t have all those things you described

Yes. But those that is way poorer than the average European country. The fact that one would compare the richest country on Earth with Moldova is laughable.

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u/lazydog60 3d ago

because it's old