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I'm a Canadian living in Korea and sometimes have to explain to locals that the reason I've never been to Vancouver is because I lived on the opposite coast and it would take a week to drive there. In Korea, aside from a few outlying islands, you can never be more than four hours away from anywhere else in the country.
This is what most people on Lemmy don't understand when they complain about cars in North America. Texas and California combined are the size of all of Europe. America and Canada are very large. In most situations we do need cars to live a normal life.
Some countries in Europe, even small ones, have really crappy public transport so driving cars is still necessity. Poland and Ireland comes to mind.
Ireland is a lovely place but it really is a pain in the backside to get around as a non-resident.