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> In Australia a non-car lifestyle is possible but very limiting I take a huge affront to this, as an Aussie who has never owned a car. Sure, you have to live
by megablast 12y ago
> In Australia a non-car lifestyle is possible but very limiting
I take a huge affront to this, as an Aussie who has never owned a car. Sure, you have to live in a city, like 90% of the rest of Australians.
And both London and Melbourne/Sydney/Adelaide have night buses.
- RK 12y agoI visited Melbourne for about a month a couple of years ago and was excited to use the train to get around, but people there routinely said I was crazy for doing that. People often offered to give me a ride to the train station (usually a few blocks away). I got the overall impression that Australia has a very similar car culture to the US.
- sien 12y agoI've done this in Melbourne and Canberra and have friends who have done it in Hobart. It's quite possible in many of Australia's larger cities.
- jpatokal 12y agoTake all the affront you like, it's true. You can indeed get around the cities kinda-sorta okay on public transport, but if you can't even rent a car on occasion, vast swathes of the country are effectively off limits. Compare this with, say, Japan or Germany, where you can reach any point in the entire country quite comfortably on public transport. Now, given its vast size and the low population density outside the cities, I'm not saying it's feasible for Australia to ever have Japanese or German-style PT... but for better or worse, that's the situation today.