From the comments, on moving to the suburbs

As Ed Banfield observed, the flight to the suburbs pre-dated the car because people prefer cheaper housing and more space: “The first elevated steam railroads were in New York in the 1870s, and twenty years later every sizable city had an electric trolley system. Railroads and trolleys enabled more people to commute and to commute larger distances; the farther out they went, the cheaper the land was and the larger the lot sizes they could afford. One- and two-family houses became common. …The ‘flight to the suburbs’ is certainly nothing new.”

Urbanists are the minority who prefer to live in dense cities and need to stop making car infrastructure the main villain in their narrative.

Here is the link.