Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of having a car and having the option to go anywhere I want whenever I want. At the same time I wish it wasn’t my only option. I live in a semi rural area and I literally can’t get anything I need as a person without driving. And even if I decided to walk I have to walk alongside a fucking highway with no sidewalk just to get there.
If you’ve ever had the fortune to travel the US coast to coast, by land or by air, you will see the entire fragile existence is held together with thin asphalt or concrete strips with absolutely nothing in between.
Manifest Destiny really should ask for its money back. We just spread out thin and failed. Now, with resources becoming ever more scarce as the billionaires hoover everything up, we will just get thinned out more.
I live in a rural area too and I would love to ride my bike to get groceries but the way these fucker drive around here it would just me a matter of time before I get hit.
As someone who moved somewhere with public transit, it’s the best. I can walk to most stuff I need within my neighborhood within 20 minutes to an hour (ironically the hour is to the auto repair shop), or I can bike places, or take a bus or train to places that are outside that area. It means that I stop drinking on nights out because I don’t want to feel like shit in the morning instead of because I need to sober up to get home (and it means I can go home when I feel like it)
Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of having a car and having the option to go anywhere I want whenever I want. At the same time I wish it wasn’t my only option. I live in a semi rural area and I literally can’t get anything I need as a person without driving. And even if I decided to walk I have to walk alongside a fucking highway with no sidewalk just to get there.
If you’ve ever had the fortune to travel the US coast to coast, by land or by air, you will see the entire fragile existence is held together with thin asphalt or concrete strips with absolutely nothing in between.
Manifest Destiny really should ask for its money back. We just spread out thin and failed. Now, with resources becoming ever more scarce as the billionaires hoover everything up, we will just get thinned out more.
I live in a rural area too and I would love to ride my bike to get groceries but the way these fucker drive around here it would just me a matter of time before I get hit.
As someone who moved somewhere with public transit, it’s the best. I can walk to most stuff I need within my neighborhood within 20 minutes to an hour (ironically the hour is to the auto repair shop), or I can bike places, or take a bus or train to places that are outside that area. It means that I stop drinking on nights out because I don’t want to feel like shit in the morning instead of because I need to sober up to get home (and it means I can go home when I feel like it)