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Yep. You'll see it here on Lemmy all the time. I've been told I should sell my car and bike to work 15miles down a road that has no sidewalk, no shoulder, and a speed limit of 60mph. If I don't like that then I can walk the 17miles and take a bus inside the city - doesn't matter where - none of them go to or from where I'm going.
Fuck FuckCars
This only really happens when fuckcars posts show up on /all IMO, where some of the more extreme opinion holders are more vocal.
Fuck cars means fuck car dependency, i.e. places designed specifically for cars: no sidewalks, no bus, no train, no safe bicycle or light motorized assistive vehicle infrastructure available - you need a car for everything, or stay trapped at home.
It doesn't mean fuck cars literally.
It's pretty well known that rural areas, by design, require cars and motorbikes to travel out of them - a train is ideal, but good luck convincing anyone to finance that kind of project. A bicycle could work well for moving around town though depending on how safe it is, saving some wear and tear from your vehicle
I mean, fuckcars aren't representative of the average liberal by any means, so I don't think that's entirely fair.
About 87% of the population in my country live in an urban environment, many of them will just have no idea how it is even just a few miles out of a city. There's just no alternative to personal transportation, and bikes don't cut it.
I'm still pretty much on board with the fuck cars crowd though - it's bizarre to me that despite so many people living in our cities that our transit seems even worse than what the US has. It's just so much nicer being in places with fewer cars around.
You have no God-given obligation to live in bumfuck nowhere. Don’t be surprised if you’re inconvenienced by your choice of location.
The people that live in buttfuck Egypt are the ones who make city life possible.
You think they make your veggies within the city limits?
I'm not complaining bout living out here. I'm complaining that most of them can't seem to fathom that the entire world cannot live in New York City working an office job right off a subway renting an apartment, and owning zero personal modes of transportation.