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Anyone else car-free? (beehaw.org)

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I'm coming up on about 6 months of car-free life in Seattle. It's certainly been challenging at times, and it's only possible at all because I work from home, but I'm making it work. I'm curious if anyone else is trying to do the same thing. There are a ton of anti-car communities online, but very few people seem to actually go car-free as, like, an ideological thing

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've always been car-free. I have never had a license. I specifically organized my life to be car-free. I moved from my parents' place in a hellish suburb directly into a dense urban area on the east coast of the US after hours of diligent research into walkability scores, Google Maps, good old-fashioned in-person urban exploration, and spreadsheeting to verify that the things I need were within reach of walking / biking / public transit.

I was thoroughly orange-pilled 10 years before Not Just Bikes started.