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Similar experience: I broke my leg, while I happened to be living both with a car, and in a building with underground parking. This really made staying indepen
by improbable22 8y ago
Similar experience: I broke my leg, while I happened to be living both with a car, and in a building with underground parking.
This really made staying independent possible, for the months it took before I could walk properly. Sure it was slower to drive to the supermarket & park underground there, instead of walking... but much quicker than waiting for someone else to have time to help.
I agree that solutions other than a traditional car would be possible. But right now, thinking through other places I've lived fine without a car, they would all have been hell.
- danjayh 8y agoI was in Shanghai for work for about 3 weeks a few years back. For the first week, I tried to use mass transit, because everyone said it was the best way around (and in shanghai, their mass transit is absolutely world-class, the best of the best). It was absolute hell - a perfect description; I was in constant pain. After the first week I broke down and just took cabs everywhere. Perfectly practical, but only when somebody else (in this case, my employer) is paying for it.
- improbable22 8y agoI can well imagine! Good on you for going all the same. In defence of the transit, it has to be said that (in a city that size) those cabs could not work without it. The roads are only passable because 90% of people aren't on them. Which is to say, the fares have to be out of reach (as a daily expense) for > 90% of people. I imagine most employers would balk at the cost of catching cabs everywhere in Oslo.
- Broken_Hippo 8y agoThis sort of thing only works if the average car is an automatic transmission. In areas where a manual transmission is the norm, breaking a leg means not driving.
- improbable22 8y agoManual in my case -- a light clutch is a lot less force than body weight.