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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by emj on Sunday September 27, 2020 @12:57PM (#24608051)
Your life choices decide if you need a car or not, you can live perfectly fine in rural Europe without a car. Sure I only had 10 km to nearest busstop, 15 km to nearest store and 60 km to nearest highspeed trainstation. So not really that rural, but you do not need a car even if those distances are longer.

Most people do have a car so the pressure is high to get one, it is also cheapin rural areas of Sweden. Parking is free, always available, most of the infrastructure is slowly being erroded by car centric design. So yes soon you will be required to have a car in some rural areas to be able to travel anywhare ot get food.

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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by hutzlibu on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:22PM (#24608283)
"Sure I only had 10 km to nearest busstop ... but you do not need a car even if those distances are longer."

And you had those conditions, while having a family? I doubt that can work out, my wife is pregnant, for example. She cannot walk or cycle 10 km to get anywhere.

Anyway, we had the choice and we live in a village with a supermarket and trainstation. But if we had to live in a place you describe, it would not work without a car.

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