Originally Posted by Juha
ILTB, if you have nothing, absolutely nothing to contribute on the subject, please shut up instead of hijacking the thread. Thank you.
--Juha, a Forum Mod
Don't mind ILTB. From what I have gleaned here and on other forums, ILTB fills the bikeforums.net role of contrarian. He often seems to post just to be contrary to whatever subject is being talked about.
If you ignore him, he won't go away unfortunately. But on the plus side his posts can be ignored without affecting the outcome of the discussion at hand.
That being said. "I" am not car free. But I have friends who are completely car free with kids. Now they live downdown Manhatten, so it is easier to be car free than have a car. Heck, they can walk down to the hospital faster than drive. Probably faster than an ambulance to get there.
I would surmise that that this is the biggest factor in being carfree in the US. So much of the country these days is laid out in such a way that it is very difficult to be car free.
-D