Even if you could sell the car and get a bus pass, the buses in my area are going to take 2+ hours to get you someplace that it takes 20-30 minutes to drive. So tack on that time, and factor in the cost of a person's time - or, you know, just subtract the sleep that could have occurred in that time (cuz usually yeah, it's "i gotta wake up at 6 to take the bus to be on time for my shitty retail mall job where my shift start is 9:30) and think about that.

Taking the bus means you have to get up at 6 AM to get to your shit shift at 9:30 AM and then, when your shit shift is over at 5, waiting til 6 to catch the bus and getting home at 8. Or so on.

The buses don't run 24/7, so if you get off at 10, good luck finding a way home. And yeah, shit mall jobs, you will be getting off at 10 some nights.

This is out in a fake city in the basic burbs, so I'm not talking NYC or LA or some shit. I don't know what their busing is like. But public transpo in the hubs like NYC, Atlanta, LA, Seattle, etc, is going to be very different even from the average American's shitty experience. Hell, it's my understanding that Atlanta is simply not made for public transport - the city's extremely spread out and it's hard to get from most places to most other places unless you have a car.