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Not just your car, it's where you live (5.00 / 1) (#42)
by Edgar08 on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 02:31:48 AM EST
And who you are.

From 1994 to 2001 I lived in San Francisco, and I can say with some confidence I probably stepped inside a car less than 50 times during that entire time period.   45 of those times in cabs.

People with cars??  Losers, all of them.  Look at them.  Can't get any where.  Can't park anywhere.  Half their money spent on gas.  Insurance.  Registration.  Hours wasted stuck in traffic.  Hours ripped out of their lives.  Hours they would never get back.  In the soulless car.  Probably listening to .... ahem.... talk radio.   I could trace every evil in America back to a car.

Someone clever once sang "packed like lemmings in their shiny metal boxes."  I believed it.

Boy oh boy, I was a different person back then.

pretty much (5.00 / 1) (#46)
by Nasarius on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 04:09:36 AM EST
Isn't it great, though, living somewhere with good public transport? I'm about to ditch my first and (hopefully) last car, and go and live in a proper city.

I'm perhaps not quite as judgmental, but the suburban commuter lifestyle really needs to die. I'm sure it will soon anyway, due to economic pressure. Cities like New York or Munich already have proper rail systems that extend deep into the suburbs. Cars are fine for shopping, etc. but using them to commute for more than, say, 20 minutes each way every day? Insanity.

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Commuter lifestyle.... (none / 0) (#95)
by kdog on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 12:46:57 PM EST
is not sustainable...nail on the head there my friend.

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Commuter, non-commuter, whatever, lifestyles - (none / 0) (#96)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 01:13:16 PM EST
none of them will sustain in the long run. No "lifestyle" has ever sustained in the long run in the history of mankind.

At some point none of us will have access to relatively cheap energy for personal use.

At that point most of the entire population of the world will find their lifestyles "unsustainable."

imo, it ain't that point now, and it won't be for a long, long time.

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I can only be creative in two places... (none / 0) (#44)
by reynwrap582 on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 03:25:37 AM EST
In my car or on the toilet.  I prefer the car.

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i live in SF and own a car (none / 0) (#47)
by boredmpa on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 04:26:35 AM EST
Why? Because I am under/unemployed.

Why would an under/unemployed person own a car?  

Because they need it for potential work, because they've used it for actual work, and because they sure as hell don't have the credit to replace it if they sell it (because then they can't get a low paid job out of the city as a stepping stone).

I'm not a loser, I'm f'n poor and in a position where the risk analysis has been pretty f'n complicated.  How complicated? If I sell my car it'll be because either a) I get a well paying job at the GAO or SFO or b) because I need to pay for dental work before I join the peace corps or c) i end up doing underpaid research work and have to pay for dental.

So please check your classism at the door.

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FWIW (none / 0) (#94)
by Edgar08 on Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 11:55:31 AM EST
I was hoping that the sentence that would have jumped out a the reader was this one:

Boy oh boy, I was a different person back then.

I was hoping my more recent comments on this blog combined with the hyperbolic nature of the comment might reveal the true intent of the comment.

There may be a disconnenct between likeminded people, between some who see driving as a necessity and those who primarily see driving as a luxury.

 

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