I grew up in regional Australia in an area where you needed a car to get anywhere or do anything. It was hell. I fled from there to the middle of a city the sec

I grew up in regional Australia in an area where you needed a car to get anywhere or do anything. It was hell. I fled from there to the middle of a city the second I was old enough to do so and could not imagine going back. P.S. based on the short amount of time I've spent in Texas I would rank it as one of the most horrible places I've visited on the face of this planet. I cannot comprehend how anyone would voluntarily live there. The same goes for anywhere (including suburban Australia) with vast expanses of low density housing. You have all of the bad parts of living in a city (low privacy, crime, lack of natural spaces) with none of the good (proximity to services, cultural density, high quality mass transit, entertainment etc).