pillbinge t1_iubhjiy wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:27 AM

Some parts are. Most parts aren't. Anyone who says the city is walkable is coming from bumfuck nowhere and trying to aggrandize the city. I'm both from the city and I travel a lot. Boston has more in common with European suburbs than the cities themselves, but plenty of parts are cut off.

Keep in mind that some people say "walkable" includes transit, while others don't. I can see either point. Regardless, those who have cars are at a huge advantage. Only when it's mainly a disadvantage for the city does "walkable" start to shift in balance.

FromLuxorToEphesus t1_iuc8kob wrote on October 30, 2022 at 5:50 AM

So very few cities anywhere are walkable then, including 95% of Europe. There’s very very very few cities in the world where having a car is more of a disadvantage than an advantage.

pillbinge t1_iudlmu7 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 3:06 PM

Correct. Very few are walkable, though I've seemingly lived in all of them in Europe then. The test for me is whether or not my mother could walk to the store on her own and get what she needs. In Boston, she cannot. If she has to rely on the T then that's less walkable than not relying on the T, but in decades past, grocers' have shut down and businesses turned into chains. I wish she didn't need a car, but she does.