It's not that that person was wrong. They were right -- about their own preferences.

They feel sorry for people who are different from them and want different things. Some people love being able to drive places (my disabled sister is one of them).

I feel sorry for people who don't know they're in a bubble. Maybe they truly want to live in a cookie-cutter McMansion suburb and just won't allow themselves to consider it for cultural reasons. That specifically is unlikely, but some version of it is probably happening, and they're missing out as a result.