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It just so happens that people have different preferences. I grew up with excellent transit and walkability, learned to drive at 30yo and never looked back.

Small example in lieu of a long post.. climbing gym halfway across Seattle is a convenient 13-18min drive, so when I was visiting family in Moscow I was grumbling about how it took 45-50mins to get to one by transit, including 10mins of walking, sometimes in the rain. I remember Moscow being very convenient, I thought, why do gyms locations in particular suck so much? Then I realized my definition of convenient has changed with driving... taking 45-60mins and the weather is how I used to go pretty much anywhere, but driving in Moscow is even worse, so I thought it was great. Now that I've discovered properly organized environment, I could never go back to transit without a strong incentive (ie some other major advantage an area has), and if someplace is too dense for cars I just wouldn't live there.