It's someone who doesn't know what sub they're in; this sub is for those living in NYC, LA, SF, and Chicago only. I'm guessing they live in the tiny sliver of the United States that isn't one of those four cities, hence their confusion.
uh, yes? here in sweden we have public transport literally everywhere, if you don't have a proper scheduled line near you you will instead have access to what is effectively an optimized taxi service, where you just book a trip an hour in advance and it runs on the same ticket as the rest of the public transport network.