traingang

you know how nice it is to be able to walk like 5 minutes to a grocery store? You don't have to roll over to Costco once a week to buy $300 in groceries that need to be stored in two refrigerators. You just walk over to the store and buy some things for a day or two and if you forget something it's no big deal, it's a 5 minute walk!

Anyway I completely and uncritically believe this because getting in your car to do literally anything sucks ass. Just owning a car sucks ass. Yeah there are fun parts of having a car but you can rent a car to do the fun things and it's probably net cheaper.

“Car dependency has a threshold effect – using a car just sometimes increases life satisfaction but if you have to drive much more than this people start reporting lower levels of happiness,” said Rababe Saadaoui, an urban planning expert at Arizona State University and lead author of the study. “Extreme car dependence comes at a cost, to the point that the downsides outweigh the benefits.”

the benefits of extreme car dependence

Ah that reminds me, I need to call the mechanic this morning because my car started making a new sound. Living in a place where a car is required to exist is so much fun

Cars make me truly free! I pay 150 every month for car insurance+ the 70 or so per month on gas + the additional sum for maintenance. So something like 2,700 every year just to have a car as well as the comically overpriced loan I had to get when used cars became commodities in 2021

If that doesn’t make sense than you’re just anti-American

87% of people using their cars daily.

WTF!? That's insane.

I would love to have the energy and financial wherewithal to open a small grocery shop where I live. There are no walkable grocery stores in my small downtown area. You absolutely MUST have some means of transportation if you want to get groceries.

I love cars, that's why I'm grinning ear to ear while typing this in an AutoZone because I ripped up my windshield wipers that were frozen to my windshield when I had to move my car off the street before it got ticketed for alternate side parking.

oh yes the consequences of the car industries corruption in the government or as they prefer to call "lobby"

I generally miss bussing, but I'd be lying if I said my sleep schedule wasn't vastly improved and my ability to do multiple errands in a day wasn't made possible by buying a car.

Hell, I once attained some unreal level of fitness cause the buses sucked so much it was faster to spend 1-4 hours a day biking everywhere.

Finally reached that sweet spot over the past few years of owning a car, but still living in a relatively walkable spot where I can just forget the car once in a while. Only filling the tank once a month is wonderful.

Realistically, chunks of Amerikkka could arguably find a sweet spot of utilizing public transit if they only worked some 30 hours a week. Then all that time spent waiting and traveling wouldn't hurt half as bad.