[bluGill]

Very few places on earth are like that. Even in Europe's dense cities there are a lot of cars, get outside of that and there is no hope of an alternative. Though Europe is somewhat likely to have a bar within walking distance of your house, but a lot of people in Europe drive to whatever bar they drink in at least sometime.

Most of the world's public transportation sees themselves as a way to get to work and so parties which happen off hours in places hard for transport to reach get bad or no service.

[homeless_engi]

East Asia has lots of highly walkable cities with great public transit -- even a few you might not have heard of. Not just Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing but also Shenzhen, Chongqing, and Hangzhou to name a few.

[bluGill]

Sure, there are small areas like that (which are dense areas meaning a lot of people live there), but they are still a minority. Even within those cities there are places that are more walkable than others.

[wavemode]

> Very few places on earth are like that

I mean... there are fewer than 2 billion total vehicles on Earth, so I'm guessing it's not THAT uncommon to not own a car.

Unless we're arguing that people simply didn't socialize before cars existed.

[chimeracoder]

> Unless we're arguing that people simply didn't socialize before cars existed.

No, the argument is that cars changed how society is physically structured, to the point where society at large is designed to center car-based transportation.

In many countries - including the US and most of Europe - this is transparently true.

[watwut]

Not really? Yes there are a lot of cars in EU cities, but young people are not driving them - they use combination of walking, biking and public transport.

Parties are where people live and in center - public transport gets you there. Using public transport to get from bar or home party is quite normal.