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| OrangestO |
You don't need a license to travel; you need a passport. That's it.
I've never had trouble traveling without a car. What you might call inconvenience, I call opportunity.
I've become much more resourceful and resilient without a car. , I appreciate my food more just because I carry it from the store to my house.
America's infatuation with the automobile :rolleyes: |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Everything I thought I knew about you was just completely shattered. |
Tell me about it, I don't know who I am any longer :p
All my life I thought tea was either medicine (because that's when we drink tea in my family) or bathwater (green tea). A friend of mine told me the milk curdled when she tried to make "English tea" and asked me if I knew what she had done wrong. I gave it a go. I'm a happier person now  |
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| OrangestO |
| But you should definitely know how to drive one, just in case! |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by OrangestO
But you should definitely know how to drive one, just in case! |
Drive a tea? |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I'm not sure where your impression that I've done loads of travelling comes from. I try and go somewhere new every year but I wouldn't classify myself as "a traveller". Usually it's just city breaks, although we had no trouble in the Polish mountains without a car this summer.
Honestly, I really have no interest in driving. I live right in the city centre and everything is in walking distance. Work is a 15 minute bus journey away. I don't plan to get a car of my own once I've gained my license. I should be able to use company cars or hire something as and when I need it. |
Dunno, just thought I've seen a fair few travel posts from you over the years. Polish mountains sound sketchy without a car though!
Even here in LA I live in an area where I could wlk to everything but not having the option to jump in the car and drive to the beach or the mountains or a forest just seems to be too limiting for me. I'll admit you're ed here without a car as California is just so expansive, and the infatuation with car culture is dumb (truck culture even more idiotic) but I don't think people ralize the scale of the USA.
If you drive for 5 hours north (the furthest you can go) from say London, you're in the north sea. If you drive for 5 hours north, south or east from LA you haven't even left the state. It's 3000 miles to Florida (which is just as well really :stongue: ).
I'd love it if LA had a decent transport system but I just don't see it happening in my lifetime. Having a car in places like London, NY, and Paris is just pain though. |
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| OrangestO |
What's the incentive to invest in the infrastructure for it? The same applies here in Florida.
No incentive, no one gives a .
Hell, didn't Congress finally just pass a bill - first time in a decade - to fund roads, bridges, and mass transit systems?
That's first time in 10 years. And that's pathetic. |
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| OrangestO |
| People down here routinely vote against anything that would enhance public transportation: a ferry between Tampa and St. Pete; a local train connecting both cities; more bus routes and extended hours of operation. Now with gas prices back down, no one really doesn't give a lol. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by OrangestO
What's the incentive to invest in the infrastructure for it? The same applies here in Florida. |
It's the same across the continent. With very few exceptions, it's all about cars. |
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| OrangestO |
| Or hover-boards now, ffs. |
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