Unless you want to go somewhere outside those communities

Downvoted? A friend of mine lives in a small village (because they had a child on the way and needed a bigger, cheap place to live). The bus leaves two times a day, not at all on sunday and the next train station is 20 minutes by car.

Is it still cheap if you factor in car cost + car maintenance?

He needs a car for his job anyway, so yeah. But even otherwise possibly, the rent in the city here would be twice as much for half the space.

Europe seems pretty happy with the train.

Because every village or even town has access to rail.. Yeah, right.

I live in a small community in the rural American South, everything is too spread out to get anywhere quickly by walking. It's like a 7 minute drive to my post office. Lots of houses on my street living on pretty big parcels of land.

I wish, though! I hate how dependent I am on my car for transportation.