Comment by jesterswilde

Public transit is fantastic for my independence. Most other countries I've been to grant me a greater degree of freedom than I have here in the US. NYC is decent for this. Stop lights and subways help me a lot.

Of all the cities I've been to, Shanghai is where I've had the most independence (Tokyo and Osaka are tied for second.) I could often travel fully underground or using skyways. Subways everywhere that were easy to navigate. They had the blind lines on the ground, though they did sometimes run me into trees and parked bikes.