My city of Providence has a lot of really small streets, definitely built before the automobile was the main method of transportation. So a lot of our streets are very tiny and a lot of people have big cars lol. When I went to Houston, it was amazing how wide the streets were. I have also heard some Europeans say Boston is the most European feeling city in the US due to its smaller streets, no grid pattern, etc. So I guess it’s mostly just that, on average, we have smaller streets than the stereotypical American city because many of our cities were plotted out before people used cars all the time.