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You dont have to (and I'm not agreeing with OP even tho I dislike having to own a car)
Look at the housing in older cities (old streetcar suburbs) that have yards but are built on the city streets with sidewalks (houses have yards front and back) like the old Italianate and Victorian houses (1-2 story)
This sort of reaction does not surprise me - which is why I call the Car-addicted "ignorant cusses"
You are shooting yourself in the foot...
Or rather: You are draining your own pocket book. How smart is that?
Add up all the money that you have wasted on your car, the gasoline, the insurance....
And you could buy a very nice home.
Some, like me, who have lived for decades without owning a car, and lived in countries which are not pissing away their patrimony on driving, are much better off as a result.
If cars do not drive you crazy, they will drive you (and the country!) to the poorhouse.
Yes I have also lived for decades without owning a car. I always have at least two. It's smart when your cars are fun to drive and increase in value.
There are so many ways that a city (and its residents) win from getting rid of cars...
+ Lower taxes (since the infrastructure does not need to be stretched across such a large landscape)
Shipping and freight.
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+ Less pollution
Creating more city infrastructure/housing will create more.
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+ More wealth stays in the community (instead of being drained away to pay for "imported" oil)
Drill in the US. Or Stop government from intruding in and stopping hydrogen fuel-based vehicles. Also, increased city housing will increase plastc production (oil).
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+ Less need to maintain a military presence in foreign oil producing countries
More central banks are built than oil refineries, ignorant ****. Should we talk about lithium stolen from Libya and bought up by industrial companies?
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+ People get to know their neighbors
Small or suburban towns carry this quality more than cities.
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+ As stated before, people save perhaps $8-10,000 per annum by ditching their cars
Again, hydrogen. Increased taxes for infrastructure.
Owning and driving cars has nothing to do with it. At least not in my case. I don't enjoy cars, am happy to drive one without all the bells and whistles. My vehicle is not part of my identity. Not by a long shot. But cars and driving give me a lifestyle city slickers can only imagine. I dare say anyone would love to own a country home with peace and quiet.
Only poor people live on top of each other, trapped in the city.
The only good thing about living like the OP suggests is it would rid the country of Detroit, per se, and thousands of union idiots.
This boob suggests ya stay right where ya at. We got enough loons in this country already.
It is amazing how people think public transit is an answer for all cities. It takes an amazing lack of knowledge of geography and population density.
Certainly, we can agree that there are enough loons in the US.
Their lunacy is fed by things like all those car advertisements, brain-washing people.
Americans are probably the most thoroughly brainwashed people in the world- I am sorry to tell you.
The elites pick your pockets, and leave you happy about it. You send your children off to war, and they get killed, and instead of asking why - and understanding the big picture - you salute the flags they run up, and call yourselves patriots.
A true patriot is one that wants to free his countrymen from debt-slavery and addictions. A pity that there are not more who can see the connections clearly
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