While american cities are a nightmare to walk, I feel like this is a bad example, like his complaints are that the pavement is next to a road and he needs to walk a bit further to get into the park. This isn’t really unusual anywhere.

There’s giant areas of the US where there’s no pavements at all and there’s a lot of things you can’t walk to, like supermarkets or pharmacies, because your nearest one might be an hour or two walk away.