9 years without a car for me and I’m sadly over it. I’m hoping to move somewhere where I can still do most things on foot/transit, because I still really do love it, but it’s such a pain when I have heavy/bulky things to transport, and makes certain parts of town practically inaccessible. My current residence apparently has a 99 walk score and a 100 transit score, but there’s so many parts of town with terrible transit access that would be a 15-20 minute drive, but are an hour or more via transit.
people sometimes post like where would you like to live or such and one of my first things is I need to be in or around a city that has a metro line close enough to one of the stations. I just can’t imagine being without it.
Yep. The first thing I do when looking for a new place to live is check the transit score
Awesome. My neighborhood scores a 95. I moved there for many reasons, but never owning a car again is on the goal list.
I’ve lived there for a year. Never missed my old USA style car serfdom for a single day.
Wow that’s insanely high! Is it NY? I don’t know of many car free places to live
I’m in Berlin, Germany.
Inside the Ringbahn (a circle route train around the city), most of the city is inanely walkable.
Within a few minutes walking if my apartment we have everything for daily needs. Within 15 minutes by public transit we have everything else.
It’s wonderful.
At the moment I’m having to wait outside a Starbucks in Northern Idaho (family obligations). The sheer pain of the traffic, pollution, noise, and knowing that I can’t walk to anything in a reasonable timeframe (car mandatory life) is awful. It’s my first time back to the US in a year and it’s convincing me minute by minute that I made the correct choice by leaving.
Ugh, I moved to Copenhagen 2 years ago and haven’t been to the US yet. I’ll be back in a month or so and am dreading it for the exact reasons you’re saying. I… Might have to rent a car for part of this? Ugh.
Man, if only.
There is no bus from anywhere near my home to where I work. There is no bus from where I live to where I buy groceries. Both of those trips are too far by bicycle and I’d have to be suicidal to even try. If I was desperate I’d have to resort to delivery services and what would even the point be?
