As others have stated, the layout of a city presents enormous issues WRT public transport rollout.
If you take a train into a major metropolitan city like London you're sorted. You have a plethora of transport options available. For an area of at least five miles around the mainline station you come in to, buses are very frequent, a subway probably exists, other trains will exist, taxis/Uber will be easy, and so on.
Contrast that with taking a train to a random Northern town in the UK. You can get there, sure. Now what? You're miles walk from anything, it's all a big car-like suburban layout unless the specific thing you're visiting happens to be in the old town.
I generally tend to drive when visiting family for that reason alone, because otherwise it takes four or five times longer (not an exaggeration at all) to get anywhere once you're there. A 10-15 minute drive could be a 50 minute bus journey.
If you take a train into a major metropolitan city like London you're sorted. You have a plethora of transport options available. For an area of at least five miles around the mainline station you come in to, buses are very frequent, a subway probably exists, other trains will exist, taxis/Uber will be easy, and so on.
Contrast that with taking a train to a random Northern town in the UK. You can get there, sure. Now what? You're miles walk from anything, it's all a big car-like suburban layout unless the specific thing you're visiting happens to be in the old town.
I generally tend to drive when visiting family for that reason alone, because otherwise it takes four or five times longer (not an exaggeration at all) to get anywhere once you're there. A 10-15 minute drive could be a 50 minute bus journey.