That was the weird part about our city: they simply did not offer it. Literally every family was expected to have a car, and get their child to school in a car

That was the weird part about our city: they simply did not offer it. Literally every family was expected to have a car, and get their child to school in a car... or somehow have them walk, but apparently not too far, since temperatures would routinely dip to single digits Fahrenheit throughout the winter months.