I'm a fan of Google Maps and I'm not an American.
For fun, I will often plunk myself down into an American city in street view and outside of the major metropolitan areas on the coast, there is one very very evident aspect of America - they love asphalt.
It is the most virulently anti-walking society on earth. I could not survive in America because I don't drive.
Huge developments often have no sidewalks at all and if that's not a sign of hating a walking human being I dont know what is.
I realized a long long time ago that America is a giant shithole of planning.
Give it a rest.
When's the last time a Canadian government agency reported a breach of the size that we typically hear about on a near-weekly basis from the private sector?
Might be worth your while to look into things before your mouth makes the leap for you.
You clearly haven't got the first clue about how Americans live.
In 90% of America, you need a car. It's not debatable.
This is a country that has spent the last 70 years spreading out on cheap land. Any place outside densely populated, carefully planned coastal areas doesn't have the density to make transit either affordable or reliable. Look at the city centres of places like St Louis or Atlanta; they're essentially glossy towers surrounded by highways - NOBODY lives where they work. Nobody. And they can't because American planners have ever heard the term 'mixed use' when it comes to zoning. It's a disgusting hellhole of urban planning; just a stinking, rotten cesspool of stupid.
Me too. At the very least you'd expect them to be given huge severance packages of a few hundred million dollars, as per American incompetence/fraud in the financial and tech sectors.