Title. I asked the same question on the car enthusiast community. Please share thoughts here for comparison.

  • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    I keep wondering whether I raised my kids right or deprived them. My older is 18 and has no interest in driving - he’s also anxious about his adhd. But I’ve had to really push to get him to do any time behind the wheel. My younger is really jumping on the opportunity to drive but expects to live in a walkable city with transit like we do now - he’s used to being able to go anywhere without a car

    That’s all well and good, and we should all aspire to that, but what are the chances they can live without cars here in the US? They probably should be able to, even if they think “most places you do t need a car”

    • @Nefara@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      It’s certainly possible to live in a walkable place but it’ll be very expensive. Most actually walkable areas in the US are in well established cities in the east where the “bones” of their layout were built before the GM conspiracy played out. I could barely afford to live there at the time and probably couldn’t afford to live there now. There are still some towns out there that haven’t lost their downtown main streets though. Unfortunately I think the path forward for the moment looks like settling for car dependency and pushing your local area to make positive changes for pedestrians and alternative transport.

      • @Salad_Fries@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        I currently live in a very walkable area.

        Rent is indeed significantly more expensive, but not when factoring rent/transportation together. (At least in my experience).

        For an equivalent apartment in the suburbs & a car, it comes out as roughly the same cost as my current apartment without a car.