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I live in a large town without any public transportation and maybe 5% of the roads have sidewalks. I don't drive and walking on the uneven dirt along the roadside aggravates my disability. I hate feeling so isolated and I hate that the town refuses to do anything about the situation because they'd rather spend money on cops and corps.

As someone who has always lived in cities/towns that have had at the very least decent public transportation, I genuinely don't understand how there can be places that DON'T have that. Is everyone just expected to be able to shell out the thousands of dollars per year that owning a car costs or something? What do you do if you're disabled and literally can't drive, or you don't make enough to be able to afford a car?

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Is everyone just expected to be able to shell out the thousands of dollars per year that owning a car costs or something?

Yup. Can't afford a car? Guess you'll have to suffer and die. It's like this through most of the US. It's a hellscape.

the place I mentioned up above that I used to live that was full of people who wanted it to be 1959 also had ZERO public transportation. I don't even want to visit that place again.

I live in a place like that and yes, that's what you have to do to live here. Also fuel is more expensive (though housing is a lot cheaper). If you don't have a car you probably don't have a job, if you're disabled in a way that means you can't drive you move to a bigger town or city as soon as you can.

See, here's what I don't get. If the housing is cheaper but the fuel is more expensive and it takes a lot of fuel to get anywhere, then doesn't that basically just negate the fact that the housing is cheaper?

As someone who rents in an expensive city and doesn't drive, if I lived somewhere with cheap housing but I drove, then yeah the cost of driving would easily add up to at least as much as I was saving on rent.

With that said, in a lot of places (I think especially in the West?) most people still drive, regardless of where they live. The transit system in my city is pretty good, but most people here still drive. In my experience, the majority of people who drive really struggle with the idea of not having a vehicle--even if they live somewhere that totally supports not having one. So a lot of people probably don't think of it as paying more in rent but saving tons by not having a vehicle. Because they would still have a vehicle, regardless.

It’s easier, if less convenient, to restrict travel to save money than it is to manifest extra rent money. Turns out that homelessness sucks a lot more than not being able to go anywhere you want whenever you want.

But even if you aren't driving much, you still have to pay registration and insurance and parking and none of those are cheap.

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