To the vast majority of Americans it unfortunately is.

No but living in a world without automobiles absolutely is. I’m sick and tired of this deranged notion that it’s somehow virtuous to deliberately impoverish ourselves by giving up things like cars that, empirically, human beings from every culture rich enough to afford them prefer to use.

Let's not ignore the negative externalities of cars.

Separately: In a small town, it's objectively nicer to have certain areas that are walkable without navigating traffic.

> In a small town, it's objectively nicer to have certain areas that are walkable without navigating traffic.

Sure, I don't have a problem with that.