I just want to vent honestly. 24(F) with a 4 year old toddler. I haven’t had a car since he was about 1 years old. My son’s dad has been providing the transportation throughout the relationship once I lost my car. But it’s going on 3-4 years now & it’s taking a toll on me. I wanna leave this relationship but as stated before dad was the one with the vehicle. Uber and Lyft aren’t available where I am. Credit score is shit. I’m trying not to get in a funk about it but I really just want my own car again. I miss the feeling of being able to just up and leave when I want to.

How many times have you guys had strangers offering rides and what was your reaction? I've had it happen twice now, I live in a close community where a lot of times you see the same faces every day. I made the dumb decision last night to accept the offer, I was tired, my body was sore, and I had a handful of groceries. We exchanged names and chit chat, ofc I kept my phone on hand. She was nice and she had family that lived nearby.

I can't drive due to medical reasons.(I'm disabled). I'm trying to move out of my mom's place. I have a lot of things. Does anyone know how people who can't drive move? I have nobody to help me. No friends and no family.

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I want to travel and explore other countries in Europe. Obviously without a car but I do prefer having a vehicle over having to rely on expensive public transportation.

Advice?

NYS street legal car alternatives?

Went vehicle shopping the other day and came home disappointed, and I really don’t want to participate in todays car market.

So, what are my NYS street legal alternatives? I just scrolled past a Tuk Tuk with a cab…and an enclosed 4 seat golf cart… they seem like ideal machines for running around town. But in NYS… NYS…

I’m just not going to pay $30,$40 k for a vehicle that’s primarily going to be used for around town work and running errands.

Other than a bakfiet bike, what are my alternative options for moving the family around town?

I will give a caveat that my partner has a car but I primarily do not use a car and only borrow. Another caveat, we live near a city in a suburb within the same county so I do recognize the privilege and flexibility this offers. However, even the farther out, rural communities in our area have at least one regional transit and one larger route that runs once a day.

Some context, I have had random bouts of seizures so driving isn’t always the safest. I have been deemed okay to drive by my doctor but I still feel it is safest if I try to limit how much I drive.

Additionally, our financial situation is no longer in a place where we can afford two cars. Simply up keeping one car is actually quite a financial burden nowadays.

But I want to provide help and support for those out there who want to learn to make the most of living a mostly car-free lifestyle.

Commuting I have done: cycling (my personal favorite), public transportation, Uber, and getting rides.

Ask me anything and I’ll see if I can help!

Hi everyone, I always had no regret of not being able to drive (I have the licence but I used it only a few times). I hate driving and I live in a big city where I can use public trasports efficiently. But in a month I will start a job where a couple of times a month they can call me at night. Friends and family insist that public transport at night are dangerous and I can't count on taxis (in my country - Italy - Uber doesn't exist). I can't use bike as well because my place of work is out of town and the road is dangerous. So, I am thinking of taking again driving classes, but I hate the idea. I am so nervous when I drive, I don't want to spend money on maintaining a car and I have been always dreaming a world without car.

I am thinking of a motorcycle, I never drove it and I know that potentially it is more dangerous but I feel I am less nervous thinking of driving something smaller.

Do you have suggestions or similar experiences? Thank you

What is best way to get around bmore county not city without a car? I heard the public transportation services are not great there. I cant afford the city life rn. I usually uber ,but i was wondering if anyone had any alternatives.f20s

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My partner has been slowly teaching me to drive, and some of it has been ok, some of it not so much. No wreck or anything yet, but it definitely doesn't help that I get extremely nervous behind the wheel.

We're in a small rural town outside Nashville now, hoping to move to Atlanta or Houston soon, so am hoping to at least get my license but I think if we end up moving to a place like Atlanta, using public transportation on the daily would be more feasible and easier. But at least having a license would allow me to use it in an absolute emergency if need be.

But I can't stress enough how bad my nerves were behind the wheel. Being raised with a short tempered stepdad and in an overall religious cult environment hasn't helped--fearing death is definitely not material to take on the road.

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I'm 28 years old. I don't drive a car due to minor vision problems, not by choice. I want to get out of the house more, but it's hard to because I'm out in the country, away from everything. I don't have anyone to take me anywhere. I live with parents still, but they're always busy even if they wanted to. Do I just have to put up with this until I can move out to a better location?

I've been working from home for a while. I get groceries from Whole Foods delivery. The only reason I drive regularly is because of my apartment building. Apt. numbers are confusing and out of order so for packages, stuff gets left in the hallway or dropped off at the front office. The front office does not stick to posted hours, there's only one person on staff that regularly leaves and locks the door. So I have to get packages (which are often large and heavy) at a UPS store which is a short drive.

Anything else is pretty much within walking distance. And for any long trips like to visit people I'm fine with a rental.

So, when my lease is up, I'm considering a master-planned community. There are two apartments in MPC's where I live. I only just discovered this term after searching for information after visiting a place where a friend lives.

It's a tight area, small roads, everything close together, you have to get mail from the post office, people are just walking around talking. ...It was such a crazy experience for me to see that. Like the whole town was kind of a general hang-out for everyone. People were just calling out to each other by name. Such a trip.

Anyway, I'm curious if anyone has experience with this kind of place. What are the limits? Pros, cons, etc.

Looking for something really good on sidewalks and roads. I don’t have a car but I have a store within walking distance from my apartment that I go to, but I would like to make carrying groceries easier on myself and be able to get heavier items.

Hello. I bought a new Honda Civic in 2016. I paid $37k Cash. I saved up a lot from when I was a kid and bought a nice car.

At the time my workplace was a 50 minute drive away so I used the car daily as my commute. Before this I owned an old 94 Carolla that my grandmother gave me. That car is still kicking strong at 100000kms and my brother currently uses it (He doesnt drive the car at all either, so I'll see till have access to this if I need it)

I got a new job recently and am now working hybrid office/WFH where my office is a 5km commute. Im riding my electric scooter in to work when I choose to go in.

My car is kind of sitting in my garage doing nothing. In the 5 years I have owned it its done 30000kms. Rego is $900 per year and insurance is around $1500. I have put it up for sale on facebook marketplace for $29,999 and have had many offers/interest for around $26/27K

I was close to selling it at the end of last year but In the end I retracted my offer as I was still using the car to travel to work a few days a week.

Im still very attached to the car, Its the first thing I ever saved up for and Am very emotionally stuck to it.

In all scenario's Ill be better off financially without it and ill still have my old car to use when I need to goto the shops or every now and then when a car is needed.

Its a 5 mins walk to the train/tram/bus and 5 mins walk to the local shopping strip. In every scenario ill be better off without it, But I cant convince myself to sell it.

I also purchased a house last year and could use some of the cash to pay that off too

Thanks.

Heart Disease? Obesity? Loss of community? Vitamin D Deficiency? etc

So many small issues would be solved if everyone just got off their ass, walked to the grocery store if thats feesible and carried their groceries home.

Owning a car. Is not a must in this society. Don't go broke. Nobody knows how much money you have in your pocket. You're probably doing better than some of these people driving In a BMW and Mercedes Benz. A car It's somehow this weird status symbol that is not accurate at all as status. There so many factors when I comes to owner ship sometimes you trying to compete with someone that is not even real competition. That what car ownership looks like to me trying to outlook everyone by making it seem your financially better when that is not always the case. Some of these people driving these cars are hardworking people that worked there way to the top and then there are rich kids who parents just bought them the car! It’s not that this person is a hard worker than you or smarter there so much factors I’ve known people who live in ghetto neighbor hoods but drive a brand new luxury/muscle car. Putting money into a car to try and prove to people they are highly successful. I also know people who buy salvaged cars and try and act like its not. Don’t be fooled don’t let this rat race of cars make you enter a unfair competition that drains your bank account. Get on public transportation and stack your money up. I can afford a good car. Why do that to myself? My monthly bus pass Is $50 a month. I take four trips a day to and from work. Some of you live by train stations some of you guys live by light rails and drive by them every day, Potentially going the same exact direction that light rail will take you! Hopefully more people that start riding this public transportation. The city starts increasing funding and making them more accessible and attractive for more riders and become the thing to do and take out the stigma that it’s for poor people and low life.

Hello good people of the internet.

Does anyone here have insight about what areas are walkable other than cities? I recently decided I don’t want to drive anymore mainly for safety.

Any examples or tips about where to look for further info would be appreciated. How do people live in these areas?

Someone suggested to me once to consider setting up a life about three miles outside of a small town. They specified the town should have about fifteen traffic lights and not five hundred.

I’m just considering my options because I really don’t necessarily intend on staying in the city my entire life, but, you know most people outside of the city drive. Anyways I guess I can stop there.

Thank you.

At this point I'm 26 and Uber or rely on other people I can't afford a car or car insurance let alone my phone bill. So I am wondering if I should bother driving ever ? I haven't driven in many years less than 10. Everyone tell me to drive excepty mother bc I have a slow reaction processing time so I'm wondering if she hindering me from my independence and if she rly doesn't trust me on the roads n is scared I would hurt myself or others. Howver I am sick of her driving me and I can't afford to live in the city and there no public transportation near me .

Long story short, I've been stuck in a rut for a long while, stuck with toxic family (homophobic religious zealots), trying to get a line of income of my own to become independent, and I've never had a car. I'm in a rural town in Tennessee about an hour and a half SE of Nashville, and I actually met a great friend whose in a way better position than I am.

I met this friend on a dating site over the summer and more recently, we've gotten close. He's taken me to a Dr appt to get second opinion, out to lunch in Nashville. He currently lives only a couple minutes away from me, and he comes and gets me when I'm able to get out and we go to his place or we go on walks on a trail by the river close by. He knows about my toxic family, just not the low income and no car thing. I'm terrified to tell him about the no car thing. I've been sheltered nearly my entire life (I'm 30 btw), and he's really snuck up on me. I've never felt this way about someone. He says he feels the same but my baggage is definitely something I hate.

Anyone in a similar situation or have went through one?

If cars were funded,

by liable employers,

teleport to work.

I am kind of in a pickle here because I'm in my mid 20s with my liscense but no car. I got my liscense 6 years ago but I was never allowed to go far and alone since my mom is scared bc of my learning disabilties. Data for water to now and I have no car or savings or a stable income /job. I have a place to stay until I get back on my feet but I Uber and it costly and I don't want to be more responsiblity for my bf . My mom constantly complains about driving me but says I shouldn't if I don't feel comfortable and I am not sure if she is looking out for me like in my best interest or not. My mother is very toxic . How'vever everyone around me says to drive and I'm planning on practices soon but I'm nervous . I also hate waiting around for hours for my ride but yeah . I unfortunately can't bike , walk in the suburbs area. There is public transportation but I have to Uber to it .