Lots to disagree about like
> The list of most coveted cities to visit have one striking thing in common—they are pedestrian centric.
if your coveted places are mostly in Europe/Japan. Los Angeles, Chiang Mai (or any city in most SEA) etc are the opposite of pedestrian centric. Do you like multi hour walks in heat among pollution and traffic or stray dogs to get to a nice coffeeshop? Yeah. Public transport is broken and literally everybody who lives there uses personal transport.
(He then goes to contradict himself and recommend unsafe moto taxi)