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Johnny Blaze
Johnny Blaze
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Johnny Blaze
I should have kept the kittens. I knew it. Rectified.
Fields
Fields
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Fields
next time preferably keep your chauvinistic gammon views to yourself
jda
jda
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My Edinburgh-based brother never learnt to drive. Living in a city with good public transport, it's not really necessary.
macca 53
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My daughter has always lived in big ciries since she was old enough to drive - she sees no need (or benefit) to her learning how…
macca 53
macca 53
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macca 53
*cities*
paulcook
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I find it more remarkable people can cope without a car. Our worlds are almost built around them. But it depends where you live and what you want to do with your time.

I've been without a car since May and while I've managed to maintain some normality it's also been limiting when I can do some stuff catching trains and the occasional bus to various places.

Elderly people especially in some villages must feel more cut off when especially bus services get cut and cut and cut.
Johnny Blaze
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Johnny Blaze
Fair point. But I bet she wasn’t always using public transport was she? Bit difficult to function politically in the world if you are getting piss-wet through waiting for a bus that’s broken down 3 miles up the road. I guess she has more time on her hands now plus the taxpayer isn’t picking up the tab, so she has had to meet reality head on.
Memento mori and all that.
macca 53
macca 53
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macca 53
[we moved into the big city for exactly that reason when we retired paulcook. We can walk pretty much everywhere we need to; get the train or bus whenever we can and use the car as little as possible ]
jda
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I would expect any reasonably senior politician to be driven around most of the time for job-related stuff.

Or, if a tory, flown on a private helicopter.
macca 53
macca 53
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macca 53
Fair point. But I bet she wasn’t always using public transport was she? Bit difficult to function politically in the world if you are getting piss-wet through waiting for a bus that’s broken down 3 miles up the road. I guess she has more time on her hands now plus the taxpayer isn’t picking up the tab, so she has had to meet reality head on. Memento mori and all that.


Is that for me (or my daughter), JB? She graduated in 2012 and since then has lived in that London, Dusseldorf, Manchester, Stuttgart and Munich - all with pretty extensive public transport systems (and in the German cities, U- and S-bahns as well and even, shock, horror integrated with the bus services).

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