No. Suburbs in Europe, Canada, and Australia tend to be a bit more small towns which have been swallowed up by the main centre. They are a more or less a collection of small towns all joined together. They've got a shopping area somewhere roughly in the middle of each suburb where you can get your groceries, mail letters, visit your doctor, take a book out of the library, and go to church.

In Australia, the word "suburb" just means "neighbourhood". Rowan and I live in a lovely little suburb 4 km from the CBD which is also a suburb, and we're looking at moving to one of the suburbs a little further out. Some of the things we like about our current suburb are how close two shopping areas are (about 2 km and 2.5 km away) and there we can get anything we want ... groceries, hardware, clothes, jewellery, household goods. There is a library nearby, medical centres, post office, and a delicious little bakery. As we consider a move, we have observed the same things in the new suburbs as well.

That's not saying a version of the US-style suburbs don't exist in Europe, Canada and Australia, but not the extent that they do in the US.

Also Europe has an excellent transportation system.


As for sidewalks on roads leading out/into the big city ... ummm ... not sure what you're talking about there.