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by WD-42 844 days ago
By land mass for sure but by practicality of access unlikely. Near urban or small towns going on a daily walk in the US is usually limited unless you are willing to get shot at because “muh property”
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What towns are you thinking of? It has not been true anywhere I have lived.
What a weird idea that you can't walk around small towns in the US without getting shot. There may or may not be good walking paths and sidewalks in many areas but you don't have people with a shotgun waiting for someone to set a toe on their property.
I've also just not lived anywhere without reasonable access to at least a few parks and trails.
I actually have a pretty nice set of trails that I can access directly from my house. Some is on private land that I don't have legal access to but the idea that someone would just shoot me for walking there (especially without very serious consequences) is laughable. And yes, tons of other trails and parks are very short drives away. I'm not sure walkable access to non-roads/public right-of-ways is commonplace in most parts of the world.