Originally Posted by
sauerwald
I am 58 - not sure if that counts as 'older' in your book.
My income is in the top 1% of US residents, so if I wanted (or needed) a car, I could afford one.
The reasons that I don't have a car:
1) I don't need one. When I do need a car, I rent one.
2) Cars kill and maim people both by physically squashing them, as well as by polluting the air that we all breath, and by impacting the climate of our planet. I believe that owning or operating a car when you don't need one is an immoral, anti-social activity and I choose not to participate in immoral, anti-social behavior.
3) I believe that the physical activity that I get by riding my bicycle every day will not only allow me to live longer, but to have a far better quality of life than most in our society.
4) I look forward to my commute every day - I know very few of my co-workers who can say the same, yet they seem to feel sorry for me since I don't have a car - **********
Which means you compromised your lofty ideals in Item 2 before you even started, and you are no better than the people who engage in this immoral and anti-social behaviour.
By the way, cars do not squash, kill and maim people. Lack of skill by the operators does all that.
Really, you should tell us how you achieve your income level in the top US 1%, then we can judge just how good your hyperbole is...