Needing to take a vehicle that’s not my feet wasn’t true when I lived in Berlin or Tokyo. It definitely wasn’t true in smaller cities I’ve lived in like Oslo, Brest, or Utrecht. Needing a car was only ever true when I lived in Austin and atlanta. And I’m talking about going out to bars, hanging out with friends, going places, like yeah maybe I needed the train occasionally but really the train is a room you hang out in for ten minutes while you magically transport somewhere else. It’s not like driving a car. You don’t have to think about it.

Edit: ok I take that back we always used a car to drive ten minutes to tryvann ski mountain in Oslo but that’s because we have jobs and the bus takes like 40 minutes.