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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
I will never stop gushing about my time living abroad and how my day-to-day life was possible with simply a bike and a bus ticket. My bike only needed maintenance once every 2 months or so and it never cost over $100 for any individual work done on it (and most of the time was about half of that). Living in an actual town makes it so that everything I needed for the day was within a 10 minute walk and a Bike freed me to access the entire \~15K person town within 10 minutes in any direction. 

And if I wanted to go somewhere else, a bus ticket from a competent public transportation system let me throw my bike in the undercarriage and then I had whole cities to explore with it.

Better yet, because you don't need a car to live, you can buy a beat up used one and it'll last forever because it's a weekend getaway vehicle rather than a daily commuter/errand runner.

In my view, the ideal America is one where we have towns where everyone who wants to have a car has one but doesn't need one to live (unless they deliberately choose to live on a farm/out in the woods).
gpt
This is genuinely all I want. The thought of just being able to take a train to a neighboring town for a day trip is incredibly attractive. I love driving, but I absolutely hate having to drive everywhere.