The dilemma of a license

For a while now, I have been dealing with people telling me to start driving.  I know I should (and I should get some credit because I did end up getting my permit) and I will need to eventually, but really, there are many ways to look at it.  I am actually helping the earth, and the citizens of it!  I'm not spending a bazillion dollars at the pump, either, so that helps me.  There are tons of people who don't drive, like four girls from my old job.  Even Meg Cabot doesn't have her license and she is living perfectly fine, with her huge paycheck from all her books she has written and all.  I just feel really stupid going places because I have to depend on my mother so much.  I feel so high school-ish.  At school, I could just hop onto a bus for free and get anywhere I wanted to.  If something was close, I would just walk.  It was really no big deal.  But here, it is very very different.  The nearest shopping store is at least twenty  miles away, so everyone has to drive to get there.  If you don't have a license, you are toast, unless you have someone to drive you that is.  My grandma says that I should just move to a city so I could just get a bus everyday.  Or marry a rich guy who will have a chauffeur to take me everywhere.