See also the other 49 states.
> Housing is ridiculous. Utilities are ridiculous. Political issues are rampant. Homeless and crimes everywhere. Owning a car or anything bigger than a bike is a hassle and full of cost and regulations. Racial and political ideologues are everywhere including in schools and they have tremendous influence. One can lose their entire livelihood if they were found to have "wrongthink" by these ideologues.
Owning a car in most of the US is a socially-mandated hassle you must impose upon your life to succeed. I'm sitting in a car service lounge typing this, in fact. You can lose your entire livelihood in the US very easily by opting out of car culture, or losing your license, or missing certain payments.
Everything else mentioned is increasingly everywhere in the US. One person's ideology is just another person's god-given natural order of course (PaRenTal rIGHTs).