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Anyone else car-free? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by jenbanim@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org

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I'm coming up on about 6 months of car-free life in Seattle. It's certainly been challenging at times, and it's only possible at all because I work from home, but I'm making it work. I'm curious if anyone else is trying to do the same thing. There are a ton of anti-car communities online, but very few people seem to actually go car-free as, like, an ideological thing

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[–] anji@lemmy.anji.nl 8 points 1 year ago

I wish.

For most of my life I lived car-free in The Netherlands. It was never a problem to bike, walk, take buses or trains thanks to the excellent infrastructure. I never owned a car there.

Ever since I moved to the US 10 years ago I've been driving my car daily. Not because I want to, but because I have to. My kids school is only 2 miles away but I have to drive as there's just no pedestrian or cycling infrastructure between my house and the school...