> However your comment seems slightly hyperbolic to me. Perhaps, and I will say I have no hard data either so it's simply anecdote. However the older I get an

> However your comment seems slightly hyperbolic to me. Perhaps, and I will say I have no hard data either so it's simply anecdote. However the older I get and the more I travel and witness other cultures - I continue to come back to this conclusion. After being a hardcore car+suburban lifestyle sort of guy in my youth. It takes a village to raise a child and also have a functional community, and the US has very few villages left. The village empties out during the day and is basically a wasteland of people who barely know each other. I don't think it's so much cars necessarily, it's the ability for people to self-segregate and pretend they are not part of a larger whole or part of an actual functional community. The ability to remove yourself from social situations you helped create (by simply existing), but want to ignore and shove off on other people. There are a few suburbs that are socially functional, but they are in the extreme minority in my experience. This laughable trope that a nuclear family is a self-sufficient unit has to die.