I did, a bus in my city takes an 2-3 hours just to travel 30 miles, I would need to catch a bus at the exact right time, travel to the center of downtown, about

I did, a bus in my city takes an 2-3 hours just to travel 30 miles, I would need to catch a bus at the exact right time, travel to the center of downtown, about an hour because multiple stops on the way, wait 30 minutes to an hour for the inter-city bus, then about 30-45 minutes from there, then walk/bike to work an additional 10-30 minutes in my nice office clothes (because dress codes) and work up a nice stanky sweat since it gets up to 90-100 degrees in the summer. And that's just to get to work and back to say nothing of getting around town. You can look at the bus schedules and see they don't pass close enough to the areas I need to go, its not practical, I don't know how people dependent on it function without losing 4-6 hours a day. What I considered was where I could afford a house, where my wife worked (the city we live in), school districts, etc. The fact that everything is country roads or major highways between cities. Fact of the matter is, unless you make a high income to live in a major city like NYC, Boston, San Fran, etc. You can't be a functional adult in the U.S., you're just extremely limited on where you can seek employment, accomplishing basic tasks like buying food (grocery stores are often a few miles away, and small shops/convenience stores are overpriced have few if any options, especially healthy ones), you'd have to take days off just to go see a dentist/doctor or a government office. We're spread out, and the fact is we like that way, most of us feel claustrophobic in a major city where total strangers are a thin wall away and your apartment costs half your monthly income and is the size of your college dorm.