This, really, after growing up in NYC, then suburban Florida and then living abroad in Cities such as Tokyo, Manila and Jakarta, owning a car in those places, m

This, really, after growing up in NYC, then suburban Florida and then living abroad in Cities such as Tokyo, Manila and Jakarta, owning a car in those places, motorcycle and just walking around is really night and day in terms of disconnect and comfort. Cars are a comfortable bubble and 100% in many high dense cities, useless or worthless, but necessary to get out of the cities sometimes (Tokyo is a large exception of course, but a car is def a nice option to experience while in Japan) The thing is, outside of USA, zoning and such do not exist to the same extent so you do have much more owner consideration w/ whatever they want with their land which is good and bad, cheap housing across asia, but parking or getting around even outside your place to the main road is def tricky, open sewers, poorly closed sewers, no car parking (which is acceptable) no/minor motorcycle parking, no bike parking, the right of way of the road and the property ingress can be really close, and it's pretty amazing. I agree 100% with your post, I just think many Americans do not know how things used to be, and never had the experience of going to places abroad which do not have many american problems. .