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How have you been living without a car? Do you live in a huge city or something?
by wakawaka28 2y ago
How have you been living without a car? Do you live in a huge city or something?
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoTo make it short, as a teenager my family was too poor to have a second vehicle for me to learn in without risking losing transportation, then I went to university in a city with a very good public transportation, and then entered the workforce right around the heyday of cheap VC-funded ridesharing which was wildly cheaper to make use of than owning/leasing a car was. Even for a while after ridesharing got expensive it still made more financial sense to use over car payment plus parking, insurance, tickets, gas, etc. What finally pushed me over the edge was moving to a suburb during the pandemic to cut down on housing costs. It’s possible to get along without a car since my area is broken up by shopping centers (it’s not a house desert), but still clearly designed to be driven around with few sidewalks. There’s bike lanes which is nice, but a lot of them run right alongside 45mph+ traffic including big trucks which is not so nice.
- qingcharles 2y agoI went two years without a car. Even in small European cities you can usually walk everywhere you need, or there is sufficient public transport once you get used to it, and as long as you are OK hanging out with the unwashed masses. I just did a year in Chicago without a car and rental electric bikes are an absolute godsend when the weather isn't shit. I can get across the city way faster than any car.