Quite sensible here! Petrol is more expensive here and being a smaller country the UK is covered by bus and train routes which are far far better than ones in the US, where such things are less practical due to the distances involved. My own small city is dense enough that I can walk to anywhere on this half of it in an hour or get a bus and arrive more quickly. Even if I have to go to another town, it's cheaper to get an occasional train than to buy and run a car for distances I could just walk, often in a few minutes. I have three major supermarkets and other shops and two pubs just five minutes walk away along with a choice of parks, two schools, a hospital , a scenic walking route and public exercise equipment and a gym. If I bought a bike it'd be even faster. I'd be nuts to buy a car!