Welcome to our country that has utterly failed to invest in public transit outside of a few major cities, such that we must be dependent on cars. Love it here.

We don't have public transit, so we need cars... It's part of what makes us poor...

You are correct. We are forced to have them though. There's no mass transit and everything is two hours away on foot. Most new cars now are $40k unless you get like a base Sentra but the median income is only $60k.

Less than 30 minute commute, if it's less than that the price of housing goes up ~20% for each 5 minutes you would save.