>Not everyone lives in large cities with whole mass transit systems or works the usual 9-5. Even in large urban areas it's tricky to get around past a certain time. I remember working unexpected shifts and later staring at closed metro stations, having to walk in the rain to get home.
These conversations are difficult to have here.
You get people from large metropolitan areas who have no clue how "the deplorables" live, making calls to "ban cars".
"I can walk around and talk to my neighbours and it's so quiet!". Yeah, I have all that where I live, and I own two cars.
Having grown up in a rural place, I’d say the way infrastructure is built in America arguably serves the rural poor the worst. Totally dependent on cars to go anywhere, with effectively no choice but to spend a large portion of your income on a likely old and and unreliable vehicle, to get to a job that will happily fire you for being late if you have a problem with it. Once upon a time even quite small rural towns had actual shops, trains, even trams, that people could live nearby to, but we’ve mostly gotten rid of those.
These conversations are difficult to have here.
You get people from large metropolitan areas who have no clue how "the deplorables" live, making calls to "ban cars".
"I can walk around and talk to my neighbours and it's so quiet!". Yeah, I have all that where I live, and I own two cars.