How many of you refuse to have a car?

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I don't have a car either - in general for all the bother it entails, but also because (even though I have a driving license - somewhere) I would find driving stressful. For similar reasons that you stated about cars, I do not (and do not want) to buy a house, or have a family or even a boyfriend. In fact, my current ideal is to own so little that I could carry it with me on my back - even then there is the problem of that being stolen, so ideally I would have nothing, then nothing can be lost, nothing can go wrong and nothing can be any bother. In reality though I do have some possessions (mainly books and clothes) and they become very important to me in almost an animate way, so I can't discard them to reach my ideal. And a minimum of things is necessary in order to live, so there is always going to be the possibility of bother.

I don't drive. I have troubles with depth perception, sensory overload and anxiety...But I happen to own a car....my dad bought me an inexpensive Volvo station wagon that Flakey drives.

If I didn't have that car, I would ride my bike everywhere. It is what I have always done.

There is nothing wrong with not having a car. There are WAY too many cars out there.

I wish I lived in a place where I could use public transportation or other means to get around.

A car is useful, and I don't think I would give it completely up. But mostly for long trips, and moving large items.

Anything else I'd love to just rely on my own feet to get around.

But the way many cities are set up in the US... this is an impossibility. Especially the smaller urban sprawl types.

I have to have one and for one reason only, it's my personal escape. I can go in it and go anywhere I want. If I want to leave my house, then it's there. Anytime, any place. I hated getting rides from others (or having to ask others for rides which I never did). By owning a car I get to be completely independent and be more solitary.

If I lived someplace with decent public transportation, like NYC, I might not have a car.

Europe definitely has better public transportation than most places in the US. When I spent a semester in Spain I got around easily without a car, and also while traveling elsewhere in Europe it was always very easy to use public transportation.

I never want to sit in the front again, they drive to fast most of the people, it scares me