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Yep. I live in Los Angeles and have the exact same feelings.
Funny story, I was visiting NYC with my family and I asked my daughter, "Isn't NY better than LA? If we lived here, you could go out with your friends on your own, you wouldn't have to wait for us to drive you."
Having grown up entirely in LA, she looks at me and says, "Yeah but most of the world doesn't live this way." Which I thought was funny because most of the world actually does live that way, and it's American car culture that's unique.
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I live in Texas, which feels like the land of the car (they imagine it is the land of the truck, though). It is still startling to me how necessary to life a car is here. I'd love to abandon the car life...with one exception.
It is something wonderful to be able to go anywhere there is a road. The freedom of getting in a car and blasting out of town to parts as yet unvisited is pretty powerful. We'd lose that of car culture diminished very much. (We may lose it anyway as the surveillance state descends upon us and the machines/tools we use).