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Here in America people make cars a part of their identity and one of the questions you’ll often hear (maybe after a few conversations) is “Do you drive?”.
by booleandilemma 5y ago
Here in America people make cars a part of their identity and one of the questions you’ll often hear (maybe after a few conversations) is “Do you drive?”.
- agency 5y agoAs an American in my 30s I have literally never been asked nor heard anyone else asked “Do you drive?”
- unfocussed_mike 5y agoThat is something you will hear towny people in the UK ask now. Especially when asking young people who are absolutely putting off learning to drive a thing they will not remotely be able to afford to run.
- escapedmoose 5y agoI’ve never heard the question “do you drive,” only “what do you drive?” The assumption that every individual owns and drives a car is pretty omnipresent.
- brimble 5y agoMaybe it's a local thing? New York, perhaps? It's definitely not widespread. It'd be a really weird question in most of the country (of course you drive)
- InitialLastName 5y agoThere are about 3-5 metro areas in the US where a substantial portion of the population doesn't drive day-to-day by choice (NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, maybe DC and Boston). I have heard "Do you drive?" asked in those places. Everywhere else, it's "what do you drive?" and "what kind of car are you thinking about paying a bank to buy for you?".
- InitialLastName 5y agoWhere I am, at least, the more frequent question is "What do you drive?". Some people are truly baffled when the answer is "I don't, really".
- Jcampuzano2 5y agoSame, where I live the moment I tell people I haven't owned a car in 2+ years they are baffled as to how I even survive.