Feel free to tell someone living in rural France, or Ireland, that they must live without an automobile. Well, I didn't. I lived in European towns/cities from

Feel free to tell someone living in rural France, or Ireland, that they must live without an automobile. Well, I didn't. I lived in European towns/cities from ~10k to 350k people. Rural areas exist obviously but compared to US suburbs or even most US urban areas we're talking far far smaller % of people who need a car for most aspects of day-to-day life in Europe.