Originally Posted by SamHouston
Depends where you are. A city with good transit & services properly dispersed, no car needed, in fact it can be a hell of a liability. Sprawl = need a car.
I agree. I know more than one New York city native who did
not grow up thinking they'd automatically have a car. One's dad has never owned a car in his life. But when bedroom communitites spread for 40 miles and there's few or no busses, no trains, clogged interstates, then a car is about the only way to get there.