i feel like people would insist on this shit regardless, even in the rest of the world people seem to not even consider the concept of forgoing a car for economic reasons, same with owning a house.
they'd rather eat less and stop heating their house than rent an apartment and stop driving everywhere.
turns out we all have one of a handful of true names, and they're all some variation on "meow", "meh!", "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE", and "grumble"