Right. Living in any major city makes it really obvious that car dependency just doesn’t scale, and easily reaches negative usefulness. I felt so much more free living in the city without a car. My city is very walkable, has a decent (for the US) transit system, and has long encouraged “transit oriented development “

I do love the freedom of a car when leaving the city, but there’s nothing quite like the freedom of the entire city available without dealing with the hassles of parking and traffic. There’s nothing like the freedom of walking out my door and hopping a train for a far away city. I can no longer deal with towns that don’t have at least a walkable center