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Can you live as a functioning adult in your area

Without a car?

Thankfully I think I can. It's easier to ride a bike everywhere than to deal with car insurance, car payment, car maintenance, gas, registration and worst of all, other drivers.
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You’re winning!

I live in DFW and we literally have the highest premiums because people here don’t know how to drive and it’s so dangerous.

If I didn’t have kids, I would totally be living that lifestyle of riding my bike because then I could also be getting exercise and I could save money by not having to go to the gym.

But yeah, car maintenance and the upkeep is something no one told me about whenever I got my first car knowing that anything at any time could literally break and I don’t know why I keep running over nails, but it’s like every 6 months have to get a new tire 🙄 not to mention how expensive oil changes are so if you are like me and you have a lot of kids, you have to get a vehicle that will fit your kids and usually that vehicle requires expensive oil changes 😩😩 I mean $90 may not seem like a lot, but it is a lot 🙄
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@TurtlePink Yeah, that's a lot of bills and a lot of stress off my shoulders since selling it. This city has crazy drivers too
hunkalove · 70-79, M
Denver is a car town. I haven't owned one or driven in over 25 years and I get around just fine. Public transportation here is a very bad joke.
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@hunkalove are most of your needs within walking distance or do you still somehow manage with the public transit?
hunkalove · 70-79, M
@caPnAhab I live just a few blocks from downtown.
I think i probably could....if pushed to.
Itd sometimes be awfully cold and dark, and often way too early or late to be out so exposed....but i think i could uncomfortably make it work.

I do often think, (in summer), 'i could pushbike to work😇'
....but then winter comes along, and i wonder, 'what on earth was i thinking !' 🤦‍♀
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@OogieBoogie I'm assuming you live in a desert? Your area sounds similar to mine, that we both experience two opposite extremes of weather

Every winter I forget how hot summer gets. Every summer I forget how cold winter gets lol
FrugalNoodle · 46-50, M
Yeah, I get food and stuff delivered to me, and when weather permits everything's within walking distance.
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@FrugalNoodle that's good. Food delivery services offer lots of convenience in these modern times
FrugalNoodle · 46-50, M
@caPnAhab It's trippy to see it coming to you too, the time counting down and the map!!
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@FrugalNoodle it's like their arrival is downloading
bookerdana · M
If you live in NYC,all is good but the Island,no way Jose
dirge · M
probably, but it'd be expensive.
caPnAhab · 26-30, M
@dirge if you rely on Uber, I reckon that expense really builds up over time
dirge · M
@caPnAhab yeah, i did a bus and metro for years for work, but theres quite a bit past that needed regularly
GoFish ·
If one is retired maybe.. people keep getting run over here 😳
StygianKohlrabi · 46-50, M
I can't in any area
DDonde · 31-35, M
Not here, no

 
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