That's a great position to have—anywhere in the developed world but the USA.

Here, it's a great aspirational position to have, but wholly impractical in the short or medium term.

Perhaps, if the Republican Party genuinely collapses within the next couple of years, it might become possible to pass the kinds of massive infrastructure overhauls required to make owning a car anything but a necessity in the vast majority of this country. Until and unless something that drastic happens, their adamant resistance to that kind of measure makes it very clearly impossible.