Getting a car when you have kids is, happily, a lifestyle choice in Amsterdam, one where you choose personal convenience over the health and happiness of others

Getting a car when you have kids is, happily, a lifestyle choice in Amsterdam, one where you choose personal convenience over the health and happiness of others. We have two kids and a cargo bike and don't need or miss having a car in Amsterdam, and we're hardly unique in that... We may hope that one day we'll look back at this practice of having personal cars sitting around in cities as a backward phenomenon, something like open sewers.