San Francisco has been moving in this direction and I couldn't be happier. Some of it is directly inspired by Dutch innovations; a few years back the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition's director took a sabbatical in Amsterdam and came back all fired up:

http://www.spur.org/events/2011-01-13/going-dutch-creating-b...

But yes, when I tell people outside of SF that I haven't owned a car in years they often look at me as if I had two heads. As the great Vizzini would say, it's just inconceivable.