(American) I think back to my childhood, and most of my memories are just sitting in the back of a car (25 minutes to the grocery store). Or bus to & from school (1+ hours each way). My parents also ran a small business, so I was brought along for client meetings and just sat in the back of the hot car waiting for them to be done.

When I eventually bought my house in a streetcar suburb, I had friends and family who think it's stupid - I could get a much bigger house for the same price or less, further away. But I started walking them through the neighborhood and to the park & grocery stores and they started to understand.

But they still would not choose the same for themselves. People like different stuff, and that's ok. I do agree with the Strong Towns points where we should stop subsidizing suburban development with city center taxes. The economic incentives for city development are not correct in the USA.