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It takes me over an hour to get almost anywhere (rural). I sometimes drive over an hour each way just to eat a meal out. The trade off is it makes my cost of living much, much lower. And I like driving, so I guess it's not so bad for me.
Same! My psychologist and doctors are 40 min away, the big shops also, we have just the supermarket, the pharmacy and the post office near us, for everything else you need to drive a lot! And forget about public transport
Ugh. Yeah. I'm in the subreddit for the nearest city, and they are constantly talking about public transportation things in the works and how happy they are for them, and I'm like, yep, when this is finished, I will still need to drive 30 minutes to the nearest stop.
Before I lived here, I lived in a far suburb of another major city and commuted into the city for school. I would actually drive 20 minutes to the light rail station, then take that another 45 minutes, then walk 20 minutes to school.
Just to be clear, though, I'm all for public transportation, I just wish it would reach me. I recently visited Tokyo, and the public transportation system was pretty incredible. You could go damn near anywhere with public transportation. Of course, they have been working on theirs for like 150 years. It's not something that gets built overnight, and I think we need to commit to working on it now so our future generations can benefit from it. Unfortunately politicians gain nothing from planning things past when they are out of office, so there is no incentive for them to push for it.