Driving has definitely "lost its cool" for me. My permanent residence is in a small suburb of a small city that is right on the border of Randolph County (i.e.

Driving has definitely "lost its cool" for me. My permanent residence is in a small suburb of a small city that is right on the border of Randolph County (i.e. Redneck Central), and before I went to university, I drove everywhere. But I didn't take my car with me to university. Instead, I use the thrice-daily Piedmont train to get back and forth from Raleigh and home every couple of weeks, and while I'm in Raleigh I either walk or ride the bus to get around. And now that I'm at home on Christmas break, I have realized how much of a bother driving really is. Sure, you can just get up and go whenever and wherever you want, but you have to deal with traffic, buy gas, pay for maintenance on your car... It's a pain even in High Point (a small city of only about 100,000), and I have no doubt that it would be even more of a pain in Raleigh, to say nothing of Charlotte, Atlanta, or New York.