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submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Two cars? Two fucking cars!?

[–] spaghetti_hitchens@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In this economy‽

[–] Ifeelya@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Localized entirely within your kitchen?

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Can I see it?

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, not about the economy. But interesting seeing an interrobang in the wild.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it's that weird to have one car per working or otherwise functional adult.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not weird to you probably because you're used to terrible infrastructure. One car and multiple bicycles. Or just no car at all and multiple bicycles. And good public transport. Now those are reasonable things to have. Not two cars.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Here's our situation:

I work 25 miles (40km) away, and transit would take >2x as long as driving
we like road trips

So, I have a commuter to get to/from work because transit takes too long. We have a family car for going on a yearly road trip. We used to have a single car (I used to bike to work), and the only thing keeping us to two cars is that commute, but I like the company and the team, so I stick with it. But maybe we'll drop back down to one car when I change jobs and no longer need the commute.

To me, that's pretty reasonable.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In other words; terrible fucking infrastructure. As u said earlier.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

It's not terrible, it's actually pretty okay. I live a couple miles from a commuter train station that takes me most of the way to work, and there's a bus connection to get to my job, so I could take transit if I wanted. But it would take a couple hours because my office is a bit out of the way and I live unreasonably far from work, and most of that is a stupid connection. If I get an e-bike, I could bike the rest of the way (about 7 miles) for a total commute time of a little over an hour, but I'm lazy.

I only do the commute 2x/week, so it's really not a priority for me, and if my SO wasn't so stubborn about sticking w/ our charter school (the public school is walking distance away), we could have a single car today.

Most of my neighbors don't need two cars, yet they have them. So we were weird when we only had one car for a couple years, and we're definitely weird when we almost never use both cars simultaneously (I like riding my bike to the local grocery store instead of driving).

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

We had more vehicles than people for awhile at my place, more than we could drive at once

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

I own two cars currently. My co worker has 8.