Fortunately for him (I suppose) he's too poor and frail to own/drive a car so just gets driven around by family members that are still around the area when he has to go somewhere so he doesn't much care.
My mom and stepdad's cabin/retirement home (they're retired but having a hard time giving up their WC home they've had since 1991, so they live in both places, basically) is up in Groveland, which is basically Sierra Foothills just outside Yosemite. It's beautiful up there. I've even lived for a year at their house there, back in the mid aughts ... LOVED IT.
I absolutely LOVE driving 'around' the tunnel via the Berkeley Hills, coming down Fish Ranch ... done it COUNTLESS times. Nowadays it's certainly no faster, but it's even prettier than the freeway through that section of the 24 ...
I have TONS of friends that grew up in Lafayette, and I lived in Orinda for 4 years as a kiddo. Talking my REAL hood, now 
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