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Well, to be fair, parking is AT LEAST as important as housing, since housing without parking is pretty damn useless in almost every city there is. There are ve
by dublin 4y ago
Well, to be fair, parking is AT LEAST as important as housing, since housing without parking is pretty damn useless in almost every city there is. There are very valid reasons that most of the population of the world (and especially the US) simply refuse to live anyplace where public transit is the only option - it just sucks. Always.
- benrbray 4y agoTokyo.
- mikebenfield 4y agoNo. There are many places where it’s perfectly viable and pleasant to do without a car, through some combination of walking, biking, and public transport. Granted, most of those places are outside the US, but even in the US there are a few decent spots, I’ve lived in them. Not every location adopts the approach of building a car dependent hellscape, and then using the very car dependence they have created as justification to continue the car dependent approach.
- giraffe_lady 4y ago> parking is AT LEAST as important as housing, Holy shit lol. I usually kinda roll my eyes when transit activists use the phrase "car brain" but it just clicked.
- QuarterReptile 4y agoMaybe parent is satire?
- usednet 4y agoThis is just completely wrong. Just from personal experience I can say that Tokyo, Amsterdam, Paris, and Florence are perfectly livable without a car.
- ThunderSizzle 4y agoNow list 4 american cities you can live in without a car?
- jjulius 4y agoChicago, Seattle, San Francisco, New York
- whateveracct 4y agoAll those cities are way better with a car. How do you plan to get to Rainier?
- jjulius 4y agoIs there supposed to be a "/s" here? Whether or not those cities are "better with a car" doesn't really matter here. OP was asking what "cities you can live in without a car", and you can do that in all four of those (I've done so in Seattle and San Francisco). Whether or not you love to do it doesn't change the fact that it's perfectly possible. And Mt. Rainier? Really? Again - the question was whether or not you can live in a city without a car. Rainier is two hours outside of the city, so it's not even a part of the question.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoWould also go so far as to put forth any college town with a climate where a bicycle will get you around most of the year without dying from freezing to death or heat exhaustion.
- presentation 4y agoSo the point is that US cities suck?
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoI don’t know anyone who owns a car in Paris. The TCO is just stupid. People just rent one when they need it.
- presentation 4y agoLOL guess everybody refuses to live in Tokyo, New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and so on, as evidenced by the severe lack of people who live in those cities.
- api_or_ipa 4y agoMore to the point, parking regulations _nudge_ people into owning cars since low density places means you have to drive _everywhere_. And the more you drive, the less you walk to the point where it becomes a seldom, maybe Sunday afternoon walk and at that point, it's clear to see how owning a car can overtake your life. And so you drive, and when you get to where you want to go, you need parking. It's a vicious circle. Desire to own a car -> drive instead of walk etc -> build parking -> shops & houses become separated by oceans of parking -> desire to own a car. Living in a dense, walkable cities where your friends and resources are close is a healthy and sought after lifestyle. You should try it.