The Best (US) Cities for Living Without a Car

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Having lived for many years without a car in both Philly and New York, I can attest that biking in Philly is much more liberating and works as a car/transit replacement. Pretty dense core, flat terrain, narrow streets. It doesn't work for most of course. People who live and work in Center City really don't need to bike, drive or take transit for almost every trip. The biggest impediment to more people going carless here in my opinion is that the city of Philadelphia holds too small of a proportion of the city's jobs compared to the suburbs partly due to the city's bad-for-business tax structure. That leads many people in dense neighborhoods to own a car pretty much exclusively to get to and from their job site in the suburbs.