Having done the suburban thing many times in my previous life, I can say this about the majority of people who deliberately move to the burbs: they feel that getting away from people is their right and that being forced to occupy a vehicle with anyone at all is an offense to their superior lifestyle. Suburbanites like you describe who "try to escape" tend to have little more than contempt from me. Don't want to car pool? They can go fuck themselves.

-- a former suburbanite who saw the light and is apparently rather bitter about some stuff