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This is really an issue of the quality of public transport and general infrastructure. Southern Germany, Bavaria, has a very good railway system.

Even the regional railway lines often get you faster where you need to go than a car would, especially during rush hours.

There's also the rarely mentioned factor of parking space becoming increasingly harder to find and more expensive in city centers. In my region, this is being solved by building affordable, or even free, parking decks near subway stations on the fringes of the city.

But even with that the parking situation still remains tense.