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Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not fo... by jgwil2 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:18AM (#32594834)
> 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.

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Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not fo... by dont__panic on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:35AM (#32595155)
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.
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Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not fo... by scelerat on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:43AM (#32595281)
> 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.

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Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not fo... by kuschku on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:07PM (#32595741)
I 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.

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Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not fo... by TheBigSalad on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:54AM (#32595488)
The 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?
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Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not fo... by dont__panic on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:13PM (#32595835)
If 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.
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Re:Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not fo... by jgwil2 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:55AM (#32595517)
Unless you move your extended family to the Netherlands too, I don't see that issue going away.
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