Originally Posted by becnal
For me, "carfree" means "Car Free". No car. I hate cars like the Big Bopper should have hated planes. Any distance is biking distance.
I very much admire your purity, but in many locations it really is hard to be
totally car free due to the infrastructure and design of the city. My role model here is the Amish. They never own cars, but in certain circumstrances they will pay a neighbor for a ride. We have had Amish patients in my hospital, and their families came in cars to visit them. When my own sons were both in the hospital, I had no qualms about getting rides with friends and neighbors, although I usually rode my bike to the hospital. When friends are going to a store, they will invite me and I often accept. Tomorrow my friend will pick me up at the Greyhound bus station so I don't have to lug a heavy suitcase home on the city bus.
For me, car free living is a chosen lifestyle, not a moral imperative.