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Cleveland, the 16th most walkable city on WalkScore with an overall city score of 57 and umpteen two bedroom apartments in the densest downtown neighborhood for under $2000, along with the best transit system after the usual suspect bigger city systems. A total miss...
What's a "walkable city"? One with lots of recreational walking paths for the hoity-toity? Or one where the hoi-polloi can walk to the supermarket? Or where can go uptown once a year and walk from the parking garage to the dentists office?
What's a "walkable city"? One with lots of recreational walking paths for the hoity-toity? Or one where the hoi-polloi can walk to the supermarket? Or where can go uptown once a year and walk from the parking garage to the dentists office?
How do you have 4000 posts here and not know what a walkable city is?
I lived without a car in Minneapolis in Whittier for 6 years. It wasn't that hard. There are three regular grocery stores, a co-op and a Vietnamese supermarket within walking distance. The bus service in the city is good, St Paul isn't bad either, the problem is when you have to go out to the suburbs.
As far as winter goes I would say that Minnesota winters are better if you don't have a car. You don't have to worry about driving in it, or about where to park during snow emergencies. I found that winters didn't seem as cold because I was out in the weather all the time and became more acclimated to it.
Eh City Nerd is like the Wallet Hub of content creators. He's got a very narrow and at times smug scope. He's very biased toward a select set of cliche cities, specifically those with HRT/LRT. That makes sense from an urbanist standpoint, but some of his videos are on subjects that should favor a wider variety of cities that he doesn't like. Though oddly he has a soft spot for Louisville which outside of a couple neighborhoods runs counter intuitive to his doctrine.
I kind of lost respect for him a couple weeks ago on his "Bridges" video. He included Chicago, (yes we have bridges, some of them architecturally significant, none of them really iconic), but didn't even give Jacksonville so much as an honorable mention. Love or hate Jacksonville the city is defined by its bridges. Many of them huge, architecturally significant, and create an awesome aesthetic while driving through the city. It's a top 10(maybe even top 5) bridge city. But it's a Florida sprawl burb, and it's massive land area dilutes things like walk scores, so he won't portray it in any kind of positive light. Even on something as innocuous as bridges.
I mention all this to say: Take this video for what it is, but i'd caution you to regard him as a source expert. He's good at clickbait, but he's more a purveyor of an ideology, than he is intellectually honest.
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