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the only part of the US that is walkable is the part built before cars, so mostly just the northeast, like NYC and north. any other cities suck for walking compared to anywhere else on earth.
the west coast is the most inhuman landscape ever created on planet earth. its is so ugly and awful.
Portland and Seattle are lovely and have many walkable neighborhoods. SF is expensive, and so is the entire bay really, but Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville are very walkable and ever so slightly more affordable compared to being on the Peninsula itself. Many of the Central Valley cities are unwalkable car based hell holes, and so is much of SoCal for that matter, but I have friends who live in Sacramento and they won't shut up about how happy they are to go car free and how the city is dramatically expanding bike infrastructure. It's very neighborhood dependent still, but I don't see why they'd be lying to me about it and they did indeed sell their cars in favor of ebikes, so the proof is in the pudding there.
Davis, and the areas near it, is famously bike friendly. There are bike lanes pretty much everywhere, and the car drivers are acclimated to bike transit enough that they aren’t crazy dangerous.
Sacramento is a bigger city, so it’s probably a bit harder to really bike transform it fully, but hopefully the process continues.
Parts of the midwest are old enough as well. There's lanes where it was clearly designed before cars were everywhere.