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Cultural differences..

by NL <nlandau@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jul 11, 2008 at 09:29 PM

Man, I'm really struggling with that right now when I read the driving 
thread..

I'm in germany. I do not own a car. I do not even own a drivers license. 
(Yeah, I know... I'm a rare thing, even here.) I do own a bike with a 
trailor (chariot, totally the coolest thing I've bought in a long time).
I walk or ride my bike everywhere. If I need to go further than I want 
to walk or ride my bike I take public trans****t and if public trans****t 
can't get me there I ask my brother if he'll be able to take me there 
(IKEA, as an example. I usually ask him at some point and he'll take me 
withing the next month whenever it's most convenient for him).

I have lived completely without car or access to a car (with a driver) 
for years while I was at university. I never felt like I was stranded 
and unable to do my grocery shopping, or whatever. Sure, sometimes I 
would think "Man, it would sure be cool to have a car and just up and go 
somewhere right now." but it was never something I couldn't live without.
That said, I never lived really out in the country, well, I did, but I 
was working at a butcher and the next grocery store was about a 30 min 
bike ride away (up hill there, down hill back, thank heaven.) so I 
wasn't going to starve or anything, but getting to the next city was 
challenging, there was a bus that went down every two hours except 
during peak times when it was going "every hour" (basically, one extra 
bus). But when I lived there I did have access to a car (my boyfriend 
and his brother), so it wasn't a huge issue.

Anyway: is it so different in the states? Is there really so much 
"outback" where you get stranded without a car because you can simply 
not get groceries without a car because you can absolutely not get to 
work without a car? I mean, I look at the maps and I think "Well, looks 
just like here really." but you know, that's a map and I'm not actually 
there to do the walking around.

So, what I'm trying to say is, not driving a car for a day isn't an 
issue for me. It's nothing that makes my life complicated or boring or 
whatever, in fact, most days I don't ride in a car.
Is it really totally different in the states? Do you take your car for 
every trip you have to make, even if it only takes 20 minutes to walk
there?

cu
nicole
 




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Cultural differences..
NL <nlandau@[EMAIL PRO  2008-07-11 21:29:25 
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cjra <cjrohr31@[EMAIL   2008-07-11 12:59:16 
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toypup <toypup@[EMAIL   2008-07-11 13:32:09 
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cjra <cjrohr31@[EMAIL   2008-07-11 13:36:53 
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Penny Gaines <penny@[E  2008-07-12 00:33:05 
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"Donna Metler"   2008-07-11 19:41:16 
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cjra <cjrohr31@[EMAIL   2008-07-11 18:01:48 
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"Stephanie" <  2008-07-11 16:08:25 
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Banty <Banty_member@[E  2008-07-11 13:13:09 
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Rosalie B. <gmbeasley@  2008-07-11 17:21:55 
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Nikki <skavanagh@[EMAI  2008-07-11 16:45:44 
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cjra <cjrohr31@[EMAIL   2008-07-11 14:52:55 
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Nikki <skavanagh@[EMAI  2008-07-14 09:42:36 
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NL <nlandau@[EMAIL PRO  2008-07-12 13:18:17 
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cjra <cjrohr31@[EMAIL   2008-07-14 07:51:20 
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"Kat" <xkatx  2008-07-11 22:04:12 
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cjra <cjrohr31@[EMAIL   2008-07-11 15:19:03 
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Banty <Banty_member@[E  2008-07-11 17:21:35 
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"Kat" <xkatx  2008-07-12 06:01:11 
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"Tai" <tainu  2008-07-12 16:52:29 
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"Kat" <xkatx  2008-07-12 05:59:00 
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"Tai" <tainu  2008-07-12 16:48:41 
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Rosalie B. <gmbeasley@  2008-07-12 11:32:40 
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"Kat" <xkatx  2008-07-12 16:25:46 
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NL <nlandau@[EMAIL PRO  2008-07-12 13:37:16 
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NL <nlandau@[EMAIL PRO  2008-07-12 17:52:57 
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Nan <Badmam@[EMAIL PRO  2008-07-12 17:29:23 
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NL <nlandau@[EMAIL PRO  2008-07-12 20:54:36 
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"MarieD" <ab  2008-07-12 18:22:11 
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"Kat" <xkatx  2008-07-13 03:38:21 
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NL <nlandau@[EMAIL PRO  2008-07-12 13:25:48 
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cjra <cjrohr31@[EMAIL   2008-07-12 15:33:13 
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emilymr <emobergrobins  2008-07-12 19:38:14 
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Sarah Vaughan <nannyog  2008-07-11 23:13:34 
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"news" <news  2008-07-11 22:21:15 
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Ericka Kammerer <eek@[  2008-07-11 22:25:11 
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NL <nlandau@[EMAIL PRO  2008-07-12 17:20:04 
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"Sue" <sburk  2008-07-12 16:30:04 
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NL <nlandau@[EMAIL PRO  2008-07-12 23:24:50 
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"Sue" <sburk  2008-07-13 09:46:10 
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NL <nlandau@[EMAIL PRO  2008-07-13 19:00:45 
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dragon <dragonlynx@[EM  2008-07-11 21:01:27 
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"Michelle J. Haines&  2008-07-12 00:29:31 
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"Tai" <tainu  2008-07-12 16:36:29 
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toto <scarecrow@[EMAIL  2008-07-12 14:20:48 
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"Sue" <sburk  2008-07-12 16:26:35 
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"MarieD" <ab  2008-07-12 18:06:43 
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emilymr <emobergrobins  2008-07-12 19:35:51 
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Pologirl <pologirl@[EM  2008-07-15 19:03:52 

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