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In the rural areas we have no mass transit and if you don't have a car you would be screwed.
That's quite often how it is here as well, actually probably eerily similar.
If you live out in the sticks, you might get lucky and have a local non-national bus company that runs services to the nearest larger town, but the national companies tend to favour connecting larger towns and cities only and it's just coincidental that they travel through villages on their routes.
Also trains, again really only connect larger towns and cities too.
Many villages here in the UK no longer have any services like schools, shops, banks or post offices and without transport links we too are often forced to use cars to ferry ourselves to and from places.