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> I'd rather not learn a whole new language and leave my family and friends so far behind You could live in New York, Boston, DC, Chicago, or other dense citie
by jgwil2 4y ago
> I'd rather not learn a whole new language and leave my family and friends so far behind
You could live in New York, Boston, DC, Chicago, or other dense cities with decent transit options without leaving the US entirely. It is certainly not impossible to live in the US without a car.
EDIT: not really sure why this is downvoted. Just taking OP's statement that they would prefer not to uproot their whole life at face value. I have lived without a car in both the US and Europe, so I promise it can be done.
- dont__panic 4y agoI have lived in multiple major US cities without a car. In NYC it's feasible, but impossible to visit family or friends who live in car-centric places. In most other cities you feel like a distant second-or-third class citizen. Swimming upstream gets tiring after a while.
- scelerat 4y ago> impossible to visit family or friends who live in car-centric places Traditional car rentals like Avis, Hertz, etc., as well as carshare services like Gig or Zipcar enable this if you don't already own a car. Many people I know in SF do this.
- kuschku 4y agoI live in Germany. I'm 26. I don't have a driver's license, and neither do many of my friends. It's never been necessary. Between transit and cycling, it's possible to reach everywhere, easily. That's one of the issues with the US today.
- TheBigSalad 4y agoThe problem is that it's too hard to visit family and friends. The solution is to move to a different country where you don't know anyone or even speak the language?
- dont__panic 4y agoIf I'm going to take transportation to rent a car anyway, might as well live someplace I like more, no? It's about optimizing multiple variables, not making every variable of my life perfect.
- jgwil2 4y agoUnless you move your extended family to the Netherlands too, I don't see that issue going away.