Bad Pink Tink 2.0
Joined March 2015 Wearing Blinders In A Bubble
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- Aug 1, 2023
Exactly, I dont drive and have never owned a car. In London the Government actively discourage car usage in the city and have recently extended the congestion charge zone.Also, a few people mentioned lack of walkable infrastructure in the US and that was actually my first thought. Living in Germany, I walked everywhere. If I wasn't walking, I rode a bike that I rented from the university. Many of my professors at the time told me that none of them owned a car (mainly due to no public parking in the city and cost of petrol) but instead they rode their bikes to work. I would LOVE to do that in the US but the closest store is an hour walk and you'd have to risk getting hit by a car due to no sidewalks.
In America, the car dependency is far greater, for the reasons you have outlined. This means that its more automatic to drive than to walk, even if the distance and infrastructure for safe walking is available.