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I'd argue that for most of the US it is necessary to have a car. We just have adequate public transport. I'd much prefer that we did, but currently we do not. I suspect one could take an aerial photo of many arenas/stadiums located in densely populated cities in the US and they do not have much parking either.
Also to be fair, we in Australia are far from being some car free utopia either.
We have heaps of car dependant urban sprawl in our major cities where the vast majority of us live. We are also adding more of this sprawl all the time.
On the plus side most of our state capital cities have got decent heavy rail networks which you can park at stations and ride.
Yeah, necessary to have a car in the US. But I like using public transit when possible. Especially when traveling to NYC. It's slightly faster to drive, but nothing beats the feeling of not having to park.
Plus, parking costs as much as the train ride
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Poster doesn't live in the US