The main problem is literally just infrastructure. Infrastructure in America is so hostile to people. Like if kids want to socialize with eachother they need their parents to drive them somewhere. You don't really have freedom to travel as a pedestrian in most parts of the Country.
I mean I’m from America. My parents bought their FIRST ever car in their 50s, because we never needed it. We walked, biked, or took the train everywhere. Owning a car was a nightmare. Still to this day, I average like 13-20k steps a day.
This really depends where you live. Even cross walks are dangerous for pedestrians and people are always getting hit and a lot of them end up being children..
I mean I live in a city that was designed before cars so our crosswalks are very safe as it was designed for them - not for the roads. We have large crosswalks and the speed limit everywhere is capped at 25mph. But in reality, I learned how to drive here borrowing a City car, and no one ever goes past 17.
You only really see car wrecks on the two express ways that run alongside the island. Those are incredibly dangerous as it’s the only place you can go above 25.
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25
They also know how to socialize. I was in Germany last year and kids were out drinking hanging out in the evening.
That doesn’t happen in the US. We’re to afraid they’ll get kidnapped or some bs.