I'd be happy if we had something resembling public transportation here. Sure, there are buses -- if you're going into downtown. And, there's a light rail system that's extremely handy. If you need to get from the airport to downtown (or, from Downtown to the Mall of America).

But, I don't need to go to downtown, so I drive my 30 miles to work. Not too bad most days, but when it snows it slows up terribly (took me and hour and 45 minutes to get to work one day last week). You'd think that people in Minneapolis would get used to driving in snow. (Me, I'd rather take a train and have the time to read.)