Do you need to drive a car to live a normal life in your country?>California>YesIt's basically required if you live anywhere that isn't a major inner city
Required unless you live in a city
Yes unless you live in the very center of a relatively big city.
>>221877247>>221877266Honorary Americans
>>221877174Required how?
>>221877174Since i work from home i make little use of it, not even 6000 miles a year.
>>221877174i can get anywhere in my city with public transport, but if i lived even a few km outside of it i would need a car
>>221877895it's not america it's the same everywherethe american thing is being unable to live without a car even in a city
>>221878218>the american thing is being unable to live without a car even in a cityThat's a weird misconception I've noticed a lot of Europeans have. If you live in any big US inner city there is public transit. The thing is that American "cities" often include the core city plus a gigantic web of far off suburbs seperated by hills or undeveloped areas. I live in Los Angeles technically but I am in those mountains in the far background in this picture. It's 25 miles or 40km. I'd have to walk a mile to a bus line through suburbs and forest, then transfer twice before getting to light rail. If you go over the mountains into the desert and empty rural farmland you are still technically in Los Angeles even though it's 75 miles away (120km) but people from there will still say they're from LA.
>>221877174beautiful BMW, their design used to be better.>>221877247>>221877266same here.>>221878623would you prefer if American cities were more compact and instead of detached houses there would be more housing like pic related?
>>221877174define normal life?you can definitely maintain an existence but life is infinitely better with a car
>>221878623yeah that's the thing. It's true that american cities do tend to have public transport, but american cities are way less compact so it's hard for public transport to serve everyone. Which also makes harder to justify building more public transport. In europe a metro line might serve a million people, in the US a metro like the same length my serve 100k people.here you are usually always close to a bus or metro station. But that doesn't mean you can get everywhere in a short period of time. My home is 200m from a bus station and my work place is 100m from another one, yet by bus it would take me over an hour to do the same trip that by car takes me just 20 minutes
>>221878828>beautiful BMW, their design used to be better.I honestly think thats right when they started getting uglier but that was the last model BMW SUV with the N57 I6 diesel and I manage to get 35mpg in it.>would you prefer if American cities were more compact and instead of detached houses there would be more housing like pic related?No, aparments are soulless. Optimally bungalow courts for the low incomes and detached mid sized homes for the middle class. High rises should be for high density major areas.Also previously dailies a Jetta with a EA211 which I know let my gf drive now and have a F10 528i with the ultra durable N52.
>>221879101>No, aparments are soulless.I disagree, I think the kind I posted with enough space and greenery in between is pretty good since it makes things comfy yet close enough together so you get the walkability meme and/or public transport makes sense. But to each their own and I guess in the US it works differently.also thank you for supporting the German car industry, you seem to know more about it than me, but after looking up the model, you have good taste.
>>221877174Not really if you live in any of the larger cities but definitely handy to have one laying around. I commute mostly with a bike but for rainy days or really cold winter mornings I have my trusty 20 y/o Ford Mondeo. Also good luck hauling anything larger than groceries with your bike.
>>221878623I think another difference is a city for us can have 100k inhabitants and people living in it without a car. Imagine living in Fargo without a car
