John has a car but is seen waiting for a bus there. Jean-Marie is proud of being woking class* and wouldn't move to a higher income neighbourhood if he could, so he's living in an area where finding parking has an unpredictible difficulty level.
*: Two kinds of people are proud of being working class. One will try to convince you they can build an utopia, and the other will convince themselves the Other (immigrants, gays, feminists, etc.) is ruining everything. Jean-Marie chose wrong.
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