It's not the ability comprehend what you wrote, but rather the content - the point you're making is the same cliche white-kid-from-the-suburbs-moves-to-a-city i

It's not the ability comprehend what you wrote, but rather the content - the point you're making is the same cliche white-kid-from-the-suburbs-moves-to-a-city infallible argument ("you only need cars because the system makes you want cars"). There's decades of revealed preference for larger, more private housing, rather than density and mass transit, and that dynamic strongly correlates to income. Median household income in the states is nearly double of said demographic's mecca, the Netherlands, and I would bet my lunch money that car ownership and utilisation there goes up with income as well. So relatively dense places with relatively poor-er population will optimize towards mass transit and biking and what not, because people can't afford cars and larger houses to begin with.