Being without a car in this country feels like speaking a different language. The whole society is laid out to accommodate something other than your lifestyle, and navigating around it is a difficult and sometimes dangerous hassle, not to mention wildly inconvenient. I watch all these documentaries about peak oil and say "Brava, brava!" when the talking head says "we need small communities!" But it seems like those small communities are still a long time coming.
All the same, I have to admit it's been really nice to enjoy the luxury of having a borrowed car lately. Things are happening, and I can actually plan to attend! People are meeting up, and I don't have to budget two hours of my day to walk all the way there, beg for a ride, when I live so far out of the way of EVERYONE, or change busses fifteen times. It's a fantastic relief, but all the same: why should it be so hard to live without an automobile to tend?
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