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@scribblemacher That's honestly terrifying. Even as an adult I don't like doing that. I grew up in a pretty rural area where having sidewalks everywhere genuinely doesn't make sense and traffic is really infrequent, but when suburbs are made like that it's just mind boggling.

@anarchaeopteryx I've mostly lived in suburbs in the US and they are basically islands, where you can't get anywhere safely without a car, and public transit doesn't serve it. Every once and awhile there's a sign or something with flowers there and you know what happened. It's such a frustrating problem because people just accept it as part of life.

@scribblemacher Canada definitely has its car-centric design problems as well, as in most things we tend to copy the USA. However I've managed to only live in either very rural areas or very urban ones. Being in a suburb like that just feels alien, like it's intentionally hostile to life.

@anarchaeopteryx I've only been to Toronto, so my experience has been limited, but I've found getting around without a car there to be so much better than any other US city I've been too.

@scribblemacher That's very funny to hear considering how the news is constantly either people complaining about terrible traffic downtown or transit being shutdown / rerouted for repairs. But it's true that it's much better than quite a lot of cities I've been in too. Which is why I pay a premium to live here, or so I remind myself.