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I 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
by dont__panic 4y ago
I 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.