Originally Posted by
skye
I actually agree with you, ILTB. I've tried it, and it is insanely difficult, unless you live in a city. Your kids end up mooching a lot of rides off of their friends parents.
That said, you can do pretty well with a car-light lifestyle. I do the groceries with my trailer, the same trailer that used to cart the kids around. But when it's time to make the away game, I pull out the car.
Car-light and car free are worlds apart when it comes to taking care of the transportation requirements for a typical family. Any adult who rides a bike at all for any amount of utility might consider themselves "car light". Car free means no access to a motor vehicle and THAT requires serious sacrifices for almost any typical family not wishing to spend all their time living in a densely populated hood or incredibly expensive gentrified area with no decent public schools. Of course that is of no concern to some our hip bicycling experts with no dependents and even less common sense.