• NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org
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      Those options aren’t really ideal.

      What if they live in the middle of no where? And their job commute is 1 hour out? Biking would take double the time and they’d have to leave very early to make it on time.

      Not every town has public transit either. Mostly it’s the cities that do, metropolitan areas especially. But, not a lot of towns offer travel luxuries.

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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        Travel luxuries? Cars are the luxury. Living a hour from where you work is a “luxury”.

        Saying someone needs a car to make up for their poor lifestyle choices doesn’t mean they need a car, it means they need better choices.

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          “You being born in a rural area and not able to move to a higher cost of living city with public transit is a poor life choice on your part”

          Literal clown take🤡

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          So living in a rural area is a poor lifestyle choice?

          Where do you think your food comes from?

          You anticar zealots are out of touch with reality.

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      Modern cars are amazing and you are missing out a lot by not having one. Public transport makes me want to kill myself. I would go as far as saying that you don’t even grow into a full person unless you have a car.

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        Is this sarcasm? Or is the last sentence really something someone could think?