Interactive: How Americans Get to WorkThe way that people get around can say a lot about how a place is made up. In the city I grew up, most people drive to where they need to go in under 15 minutes. Medium population, most work in town, and eating out meant somewhere local. Then I went to college in Berkeley, and it was more common to ride the bus or the BART — and I’m sure being surrounded by poor college students who didn’t own car
