I'm surprised Baltimore makes the list
I actually agree, and I bike everywhere here. I have dreams of living in an actual bike friendly city like Amsterdam.
That being said, with some careful crafting it’s definitely possible to bike around here and mostly avoid cars. My daily 2 mile ride to daycare and back the last two days, I haven’t been passed by a single car. There were other cars and delivery trucks on the same road as me, but because it is a small residential road, they mostly were only on it for a block or two, so I would pass them at a stop sign and then they’d turn. It’s actually faster and less distance to bike to daycare than drive, hah. And that’s without any dedicated biking infrastructure on my route. All possible because it’s a grid city, and the big “car roads” go to the same places as the small residential streets that don’t see as much car traffic because they’re a pain to drive on (lots of stop signs, one way, delivery trucks double parked). And I can get to the grocery store, library, several schools, and almost everything else I need on a regular weekday.
Though it’s a good point about employers. Most in my field are outside Baltimore and so if I wasn’t permanent WFH, that would limit my employment options pretty hard. And while it’s bikeable, i wouldn’t call Baltimore “bike friendly” either. There are large sections of the city that are silo’d if you are only biking (a huge equality problem). Bike infrastructure is limited and besides the harbor it’s mostly painted lines, pictures of bikes painted in a driving lane, and bike lanes “protected” by plastic toothpicks. And drivers are pretty entitled, in my experience.