So basically you decided to run your life in a fairly uncommon combination of factors, then based on it make strawman judgements about everybody else's reasons

So basically you decided to run your life in a fairly uncommon combination of factors, then based on it make strawman judgements about everybody else's reasons to own or not own a car, and in the end expect real world to follow these judgements. And you wonder why people assumed of you that "you've never been outside of the US" - it's exactly such attitudes which triggered their mistake.