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Do you have children? The idea of going car free when you need to take 50kg of stuff with you everywhere is terrifying.
by VBprogrammer 7y ago
Do you have children? The idea of going car free when you need to take 50kg of stuff with you everywhere is terrifying.
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoWhat are you taking everywhere?
- VBprogrammer 7y agoThe car seat and isofix base together must be the best part of 20kg. Then there's prams, nappy changing bag. If we're staying overnight, travel cot and chair etc.
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoOK. No car no car seat.... Baby goes into pram - unless being carried in sling. Nappy bag hangs on pram. Other baby stuff goes under pram or in side thing. You may sometimes need a backpack. I don't recommend backpack because it limits baby in sling opportunity.
- VBprogrammer 7y agoOK. And we employ a Sherpa to carry our own luggage right?
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoI don't... This was friendly advice from one parent to another. Sarcasm was not required. It sounds like your circumstances require a car for some journeys. But some journeys does not have to mean all journeys.
- dTal 7y agoI don't mean this in a rude way, but the fact that you just tried to justify cars primarily by the need to transport car seats may be a hint that your thinking might be a little too set in the car paradigm. A lot of the problems solved by cars, are also caused by cars.
- VBprogrammer 7y agoMy partners parents live, according to Google, 38 miles or 53 minutes away by car Alternatively, 3 hours, 2 trains and a bus away. It's completely impractical with a small child.
- dTal 7y agoOkay, that's a reasonable complaint, but travel time is a distinct and separate issue from the point we were discussing, which was the need to transport paraphernalia of which nearly half was car-related in the first place. Nevertheless, it's another example of cars creating the problems that they solve - this kind of disparity can only be caused by a terrible public transport infrastructure, which in turn is caused by inadequate funding, which is caused by lack of demand due to cars (and lobbying of course). In most places in Europe, bus+train is much faster than driving for long journeys, especially intercity. Trains can go at speeds than would be unsafe on roads, and don't have to worry about traffic jams, while buses are frequent and often get dedicated lanes in cities.
- ant6n 7y agoThere also exist strollers that double up as a car-seat without any extra attachment needed [1]. I've used it travel with baby via night train to a far away land where we got a rental car for shorter trips. [1] https://www.shopdoona.com/products/doona-car-seat-stroller-classic-collection https://www.shopdoona.com/products/doona-car-seat-stroller-c...
- esotericn 7y agoI like cars and own quite a fast one. Having said that, the way you explain this sounds like some sort of extreme first world problems thing. You don't need any of that, it's just convenient. I spent almost my entire childhood brought up on crappy public transport (e.g. not London, Tokyo, etc) in a medium sized town. Things like "staying overnight" just barely ever happened. I wouldn't have remembered it even if they did, so who cares?
- VBprogrammer 7y agoI couldn't careless about cars and have a small economical one with sliding doors. I also have a motorbike.
- ant6n 7y agoMy baby doesn't weigh 50kg. Once he's that heavy, he can walk himself.