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How on earth do people go to work if they don't drive
I walk from my bedroom to my office.
That's cool and all but I'm an industrial electrician. I have to drive to the shop every day, and travel all over the country. Can't exactly just walk over to a coal mine in bumfuck nowhere Kentucky
Just use the bus, duh.
Can't tell if this is sarcasm but just to put my city's transit into context, it'd be a 2 hour bus ride to get to the shop via bus from my house. And that's:
12 minute walk -> ride a bus -> 6 minute walk -> transfer and take a different bus -> 14 minute walk
Or a 22 minute drive
It was sarcasm.
But you could ride a bike! Which is really fun! In the winter, when there is heavy snow, or even on rainy summer days.
I don't get that some people just don't understand that it's sometimes just really inconvenient to not use a car, at least for some people. Please let them use cars without blaming them for doing so...? ๐ฅบ
Walk, bike, scooter, train, tram, metro, trolley, bus. Plenty of countries can swing public transportation and plenty of people don't need to drive but still choose to.
Edit: It occurs to me now this person may have been sarcastic.
I drive among 12 different locations for work. Can't really give up the car.
What shitty job requires that?!
It's good. I drive from school to school seeing kids with disabilities.
It's dishonest to pick the work that specifically requires driving to complain about driving.
So it's their fault your argument didn't work as expected because their job requires driving?