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Gen Z is choosing not to drive
(www.newsweek.com)
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My dad in a conversation with other parents:
"When I was their age, a car meant freedom. It meant you could take yourself to a place your friends were and your parents weren't, anytime you wanted. To them, the Internet means freedom, and they don't really see the point."
You know what true freedom is? Not requiring a car to get to places by having decently designed neighbourhoods where people can walk or cycle. For longer distances good quality transit could be available. No massive investment or lisence needed to travel.
For real, the amount of freedom I get here without a driver's license in the Netherlands is insane. I walk to the train station and can get anywhere in the country and even to a lot of other places in Europe.
Then I can just decide on a whim to walk to the grocery store, take a bike ride to visit my parents, go to a movie theater, whatever you can think of.
If there's one thing I have pride in with my country, it's the infrastructure we have. I find it very hard to imagine moving out of this country because of it.
I really don't agree. Young people still like to be able to move around freely and "the internet" is not the same as phisically going to bar, roadtrip, etc. In my opinion, nowadays people mostly don't buy cars because A) they can't afford it and B) we're more nevorinmentally conscious.