Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
How many of them weren't affiliated with a large self contained military base which I assume you were associated with. Did you own any of the residences?
I was going to add military bases but didn't because I thought the fact that most military don't have too many choices about their residence location there was no sense pointing out to this crowd that those who live on or near a military base and work and shop there too would be another prime spot for car free living.
My experience with the military in Germany though is that few military members took advantage of that opportunity.
I only lived on base in two of them (Alameda and Orlando). The rest I lived out in town, and more than half have no military base nearby, nor was I in the military when I lived there. No, I've never owned a house, I rent... sure makes life easier on a military person that may be transferred across the country, and I haven't been in a financial position to buy a house.
The only place I lived off base and still shopped on base was Bremerton... I lived less than a block from the gate... took me 10 minutes to walk to the ship, 20 minutes to walk to the exchange and commissary. If it had been much further away I wouldn't have lived there... at the time that we moved in, we had no car and no bikes. Newport News was too far from any base to make it convenient to shop there, and Hampton was close to Fort Morgan, but their commissary and exchange pretty much just sucked. Both places I shopped at a nearby Food Lion grocery store.