Historically our roads had been pretty good, but they require a lot of maintenance (heavy traffic with heavy vehicles), and really run into problems today when people who were riding donkeys a couple of weeks ago are imported here and given drivers licenses. Just as irritating & dangerous as texting while driving is the complete lack of use of blinkers/turn indicators...
Understand and bemoan all you wrote about driving.
Add in rain and snow, which we see little to none of here, southern Calif.
It’s kinda funny that I still enjoy driving!
Have I said on this thread that I was a Long Islander from birth up until 1957 - ?
With occasional visits back to see relatives.
What NY has better than here, is very good deli’s. They are ‘here’ but closer to Los Angeles.