"David J. Littleboy" wrote in message
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"Kennedy McEwen" wrote:

I personally don't want to see someone in my rear view mirror approaching
at 175MPH while I am stuck at traffic lights on my way home from work.

The easy way to avoid that is to not own a car. (That's one of the reasons
I ended up in Tokyo.)

Seriously, I don't understand why more people don't decide not to own
cars. The (quite rational*) decision not to own a car ought to be a
possibility, right?

*: Cars are dangerous and expensive (at the least; breathing gasoline
fumes can't be good for one). And one can buy a lot of camera equipment
for the price of a car.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan


Depends on where you live, and what you do, or like to do. It would be very
difficult for me to do without a car here in Salem, Oregon. We don't even
have a decent bus line that goes by my house, and most of the busses in town
stop running at 10:00 PM every day. I have to go to the next town North of
me once a week for band practice, and the next town South of me for a music
lesson every week.....Both places virtually inaccessible without my own car.
If I had to do without a car, I would have to move to the heart of a very
large city just to be able to continue my two principal hobbies.
(photography and trumpet playing) And even then, getting to and from gigs
would be very problematical. - And then, there are our four cats.......