For what truth there is to this, I wonder if it's partly a class thing too. For people middle-class and above, myself included, I get the sense that cars are so

For what truth there is to this, I wonder if it's partly a class thing too. For people middle-class and above, myself included, I get the sense that cars are something that was always present in abundance, and therefore no big deal. We're more sensitive to noticing the annoying things about them, like parking, worrying about driving drunk, traffic jams, etc, and perhaps take for granted the freedom in having your own car. People in lower classes, at least that I have interacted with, tend to see a car as more of a status symbol, since they're not so readily available at their income levels. As in, their family may have one, but they don't just automatically get their kids a car when they turn 16. And so they're more of a status symbol, and people tend to more glamorize the freedom of it while ignoring the headaches as trivial.