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Meh. We live in a town of 12,000 people (big town for the area, but in a very rural part of the US). My wife and I share one car, and walk/bike/take transit mor
by stephencanon 7y ago
Meh. We live in a town of 12,000 people (big town for the area, but in a very rural part of the US). My wife and I share one car, and walk/bike/take transit more often than we drive--the car is mostly for getting our daughter to daycare in the winter and for when my wife is on call at the hospital. There are plenty of folks in the area who don't drive at all.
There are certainly parts of the US where a car is necessary, but 90% is pushing it. It may well be that 90% of people think that they need a car, though.
- pyromine 7y agoYou may find that due to your socioeconomic status it may be more feasible to be a one car-transit using family, but for many americans who may work two jobs with a hour break between them (or situation similiar) they seriously may only manage to be able to make their schedule work with a car. (Just an example situation) Being car-less in America is hard, I lived in a the suburb of a main city and if I was to use transit options to get to work I would have spent 3 hours a day on commute alone. That's simply not feasible. Similarly I used to work a job from midnight to noon (and a year later noon to midnight) and there simply was no feasible transit option for such a schedule, and with the sprawling nature of the suburb carpooling wasn't much of an option either.