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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
You don't drive, Jesse? Sometimes I dream of an urban life where I never have to drive again, but here in NC, 12 years with almost no driving has been pretty limiting.
Also, hivemind: anyone on here Scottish, or know anyone Scottish? A FOAF is writing a book set in Scotland and has a question about a turn of phrase.
Nope. I have a license, but haven't driven in years. Not regularly since high school. Boston is the kind of place where you can do without, but it is better to have a car. Or at least access to one....
When I was last in Boston, I feared for me life: while being a passenger in a car, while being a pedestrian. I could not believe the extent to which people drove fast and badly and didn't seem to care about basic rules of the road.
I give Boston drivers the side eye to this day!
Boston is the worst place I've driven. People pass on the right in a single lane. They sit a lights with one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake.
Heh. And people who didn't grow up here wonder why I seem to cross the street at random: I am going when it is safe, which is not at all the same thing as when I have a walk sign!
If I lived in a big city, I'd never drive, for sure.
If I lived in a big city, I'd never drive, for sure.
I went more than two years without driving once. But with my parents' declining health I figured I needed a car....
Boston is the worst place I've driven.
Likewise. Although St. Louis seems to have a higher proportion of deeply stupid drivers than other cities I've driven in.
Boston was the first place I drove that wasn't Michigan. Afterwards my boss apologised for not just approving taxis for the whole business trip. It was horrible.
I seem to cross the street at random: I am going when it is safe, which is not at all the same thing as when I have a walk sign!
In Montreal the assumption was that stop signs and walk signals were convenient ways to assemble pedestrians so that drivers had less work to do in order to mow them down.
Sue, her balance may be going. My grandmother fell (at 83, IIRC) and faceplanted and broke her nose and got two black eyes. She had a pretty good sense of humor about the whole thing, and at 96 (tomorrow!) she's still toodling around but with a walker.
I don't know if that anecdata is helpful or more worrisome, but it's something to consider.