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How do you get around?

How do you get around?

  • Motorcycle

    Votes: 2 8.0%

  • Sub Compact

    Votes: 1 4.0%

  • Compact

    Votes: 2 8.0%

  • Midsize

    Votes: 4 16.0%

  • Small SUV

    Votes: 3 12.0%

  • Large SUV

    Votes: 1 4.0%

  • Pickup Truck

    Votes: 4 16.0%

  • Bus

    Votes: 2 8.0%

  • Subway

    Votes: 2 8.0%

  • Bicycle/Walk

    Votes: 4 16.0%
  • Total voters
    25
  • Poll closed .
MistressNomad said:
I walk and bus around. I'm a disaster on a bike, if I'm honest, and I never got my driving license.

To make a long story short, I just didn't have the time to deal with it in my late teens. And then when I was 18, I left to go abroad. Most other countries are smaller, and more densely populated, and thus they have really good public transit, especially in the cities. I never needed a car. In fact, having a car in most of the places I lived in was nothing but a burden.

But America is a different story. Unless you live in one of a handful of really huge cities, you really do need a car. And now I'm back, and have been for a while. I still don't have my damn license at 22, and it is getting more and more frustrating. I should deal with that sometime in the near future...
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This is my story, pretty much, except for I've been saying that I should get my license for longer. I'm 30. My husband is supposed to be teaching me and giving me some wheel time. So far that means pulling the car in and out of the garage once in a while.
 
roguenuke said:
This is my story, pretty much, except for I've been saying that I should get my license for longer. I'm 30. My husband is supposed to be teaching me and giving me some wheel time. So far that means pulling the car in and out of the garage once in a while.
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Suggestion

Get him to drive at night to a large parking lot without the concrete blocks between the various rows of stalls

A vast wide open area with very little potential to hit things would help get you comforatable behind the wheel

If you lived somewhere where it snows doing the above in a snow covered parking lot is even more fun
 
Lord Tammerlain said:
Suggestion

Get him to drive at night to a large parking lot without the concrete blocks between the various rows of stalls

A vast wide open area with very little potential to hit things would help get you comforatable behind the wheel

If you lived somewhere where it snows doing the above in a snow covered parking lot is even more fun
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He has talked about making me go into work with him one night when he is in a patrol unit and I would take our car to a parking lot in his area and just drive around for the night.
 
I drive a Ford F150 4x4 and my wife drives a Mercedes Benz E350. We live in an area that has no mass transit at all.
 
I have a small ass 2000 Chevy Caviler. But I most always drive my 2005 Yamaha RoadStar.
 
Dodge Ram hemi 4x4 for me
My wife Jeep Liberty Limited 4x4
 
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<<<.... Right there. 15 mile round trip to work each day, 8 to school, 60 - 75 miles a week commuting. I prefer it because I really hate running in circles, so working cardio into my commuting routine is just so practical. I stay fit and eat what I want, no insurance, no gas and in a city, the 25 - 35 minute ride is essentially equal to driving.
 
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